Re: [A-List] Turkey: WSJ cheers for Turkey

[Rob Schaap <rschaap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day Sabri,

>If I were marooned on an uninhabited island with only a single
human companion--in a situation where conviviality, as well as an
ability to be philosophical when the need arose, accounted for a
great deal--I'd regard myself as fortunate if he or she turned
out to be Turkish.<

I know we lefties recoil from national stereotypes as a matter of course
(although I think an analysis of international football styles would
roughly support such stereotyping), but this is almost word-for-word
what I wrote in my journal during the cramped hours winging home from
Turkey last year.  I was missing Turks already, you see.

Still do.

All the best,
Rob.