“Jaw, Jaw, Not War, War!”
Despite delays, retractions, accusation and counter accusation, it seems as if diplomacy will prevail and the eleven British hostages held against reason will surely be released, if not today, then one...
View ArticleA Victory For Diplomacy And Love
H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906 – 1922) It seems at least a week ago that I was predicting that diplomacy would win the day, and that the British service personnel seized in disputed waters in the Persian...
View ArticleKorean TV, Family Therapy And Ottoman Culture
Models Of Times Past And Present We have started learning about family trees on the Family Therapy Training Course today. These make the structures and histories of families easier to analyse, but at a...
View ArticleIs Big Brother Watching You?
Does your passport have a page like this? Here is a page from my new biometric passport. Our counter intelligence surveillance correspondent informs me that the loop is an aerial, and the black dot is...
View ArticleKumlubük: Why Are We Such Messy Sods?
An English Country Walk? If you are ever tempted to venture from the beach at Kumlubük and walk up this track you are in for a delight. In the winter it has the potential for a Sunday, (or any other...
View ArticleGeopolitics: Ebru: Reflections of Cultural Diversity in Turkey by Attila Durak
This lady represents just one of the cultures to be found today in Turkey When yesterday I wrote of the film ‘Don’t Be Afraid of Life‘, a story about three innocent men forced to encounter todays...
View ArticleInternet: The Return Of YouTube
No more, at least for You Tube! Yes, ladies and gentlepersons it’s true. When Alper Hoca sent me ‘blessings’ on Facebook this morning the page had a footer featuring a YouTube video. I checked YouTube...
View ArticleKumlubuk: After The Rant
I snapped this with the E-3 fitted with the 25mm Panasonic Leica Summilux, which is undoubtedly my heaviest but best lens.
View ArticleCappadocia ~ Ortahisar Abandoned Homes
Cappadocia, once an important staging post on the Silk Road now has many abandoned cave houses such as the one in this photograph taken by Jeremy Maxwell, Fine Art Photographer, Turkey.
View ArticlePrayers And Cola!
In Turkey many mosques, including this one, broadcast prayers, and accompanying roger beeps, on over-amplified, inferior public address equipment, thus obscuring the diction and creating a kind of...
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