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If Turkey’s first-ever presidential election, which took place yesterday, had a defining characteristic, it was the overwhelming sense of the outcome’s inevitability. I spent the past three weeks travelling across the country—Istanbul to Van and back again—and at no point
Bariş Çaycioğlu’s family has avoided discussing politics of late. With Turkey’s first presidential election less than a week away, they can’t quite seem to agree on which candidate to vote for. “We find other things to discuss,” Mr Çaycioğlu said.
Turkey heads to the polls on Sunday to popularly elect a president for the first time. It’s an important moment in the country’s democratic history. Or at least it would be were the election’s presumptive winner—Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova) is having a rough time of it. For most of this year, the Ukrainian-born, US-raised, ethnically Russian journalist and playwright has expected the worst and then been granted it. Crimea. East Ukraine. MH17. While Western correspondents condemn
On July 9, American author and bull-runner Bill Hillmann was gored by a bull. It was not Hillmann’s fault: a first-time runner, freaking out, pushed him to the ground while he was attempting to do what the very best runners
Eight people were gored in this year’s encierros, what we know in English as the running of the bulls, in Pamplona, Spain. One was an Australian, 25-year-old Jason Gilbert, whose leg was torn open from the thigh to the hip
When I first met him a year ago, Pablo Gallego García (@PabGallego) had neither a job nor very much money. Like more than fifty per cent of Spanish youth, he understood only too well the effects of the Eurozone crisis
Paul Chowder is turning fifty-five, wants his ex-girlfriend back, and is considering giving up poetry in favour of writing pop songs. First introduced in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist, he is the sort of character so ordinary that one might not