Antalya again.
4th week in a row I am coming.
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I come as much that Apple's AI thinks this hotel is my 'home'...
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This is Ibrahim’s office (the manager of my hotel).
Upon seeing the number of suitcases, I congratulated him: ‘so many customers!’. Then he corrected me: ‘no, these belong to a Russian family staying here as refugees until they get a visa for the Netherlands’.
This is new.
4/n
What seems unprecedented is that citizens of an invading country (not the invaded one) become refugees, but I feel sympathy for both of them.
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Let us check the news: @vtchakarova calls this ‘Cold War 2.0’, another option would be ‘The New Great Game’. If I were the lion, I would be very careful not to bully Turkey into taking my side too badly unless it were extremely necessary.
As it could very easily backfire…
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Considering that Turkey isn't quite welcome in the EU (and it would be odd the EU largest, most populated country was Turkey), that shall grant the Turks more latitude to defend their national interest independently...
#Symmetry
And the bullying...
7/n
can ricochet in the form of "anti-American Imperialism" easily as I said.
8/n
Samuel Huntington described Turkey as a "torn country".
Trying to suppress religion probably creates some issues to on the psyche, or rather, makes it come back in a different forms, same as Freud maintained for sex (and quoting John Gray here)...
9/n
I did not have Tava in Kilis (where it is famous), but I will have it today out of FOMO…
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7pm
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Kâzım Özalp caddesi
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I preferred Corfu’s “freddo”…
15/n
Try to overcome religion and it will come back as a boomerang (and hopefully just as religion).
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Possibly my last one this year…
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This hammam claims 700 years of history, and it is mixed; men/women.
I found that surprising, and asked them if that was always the case, even 500 years ago, and they said me yes (even more surprising, if true).
It felt like going to a car was, being the car.
Light meal.
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I misread ‘Lindy’ on the candy you get with the tea, which would have been very appropriate.
Some hammam require an appointment, but this one did not.
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Lydia leather store.
Lydia kilim store.
Judging by the anecdotal evidence, one would say these people feel closer to the kingdom of Lydia than to the Lycian confederation, even if the Lydians (later integrated as a province in the Roman Empire) are further away in time…
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According to Strabo, Lydian was almost no longer spoken in our era, and not a lot is known about the language, that was though of Indo-European origin and used an alphabet closer to the Greek one.
21/n
Cacık (tzatziki obviously!)
22/m
Summer didn’t end here (yet).
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