By the end of the year, the four wealthiest countries in the Western World could all boast women as their leaders. The significance of this cannot be underestimated. We remain in a world where the patriarchal bravado of world leaders continues to flaunt itself. Long-time chauvinistic plutocrats like Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan have, in […]
Niall Walker
Turkey and the culture of fear
My first memory of that Saturday morning was being woken up by a woman’s guttural screams. Against a backdrop hum of the urban city, its dissonance was chilling. Sitting among Istanbul’s tea drinkers, typing and sipping in mutual harmony at one of the city’s numerous cay houses, I am still unaware of the real cause […]