Moral Indignation
H. L. Mencken
The ill-fame of the Turks in the English-speaking world is not due to their political medievalism, as is usually alleged, but to their practise of polygamy.
(more…)In The Harem
Anonymous
Many people have an idea that Turkish women absolutely do nothing that is either useful or ornamental aside from the decoration of their own persons, but that is not altogether true, as my residence of over a year in their country taught me, for they are really dextrous with the needle and do work which is as fine as that done by the sisters in the convents, or that of the wives of the feudal noblemen of olden times.
(more…)Elon Musk’s Meeting With Recep Erdoğan Didn’t Go Well
Many-As-One
The Supreme Leader of the Magnificent Republic of Türkiye, the Honorable Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, may Allah bless him with good health and a long life, summoned Elon Musk yesterday at the Turkish House, his personal skyscraper in Manhattan, to discuss a collaboration opportunity.
(more…)A Young Turkish Catastrophe In Two Scenes
Saki
The Minister for Fine Arts (to whose Department had been lately added the new sub-section of Electoral Engineering) paid a business visit to the Grand Vizier. According to Eastern etiquette they discoursed for a while on indifferent subjects. The minister only checked himself in time from making a passing reference to the Marathon Race, remembering that the Vizier had a Persian grandmother and might consider any allusion to Marathon as somewhat tactless. Presently the Minister broached the subject of his interview.
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