Man for all seasons: “That airport will be finished and I will fly to Paris without delays whenever I want.”
75 million Turks don’t have passports & will never have enough money to go abroad. These kinds of statements show us that the new elite is just like all previous elites.
75 million Turks don’t have passports & will never have enough money to go abroad. These kinds of statements show us that the new elite is just like all previous elites.
Unlike many other projects, I think a new airport was necessary. I just happen to think it is in the wrong place, that workers have not been treated with respect, that Ataturk shouldn’t shut down and that the 29 October date is vainglorious, arbitrary and obviously far too soon.
Put it this way: it opens next month yet its workers are striking and being detained. If it is unfinished but opened anyway, a million passengers a week will be landing in something incomplete. That’s OK if it’s a mall. Not so much an airport where every detail is life and death.
But to the new elite, none of that matters. The prestige of the Chief is above all, even worker rights and passenger safety. “It will be finished!” A nation of those that give orders and those who somehow have to get by.
