A perfect book for me, a lightly written, personable tour through the minority communities still surviving in corners of what was the old Ottoman empire. Christian sects in Lebanon, Turks still in Bosnia, the Armenian diaspora, and so on, and what it meant to be Ottoman, to be Turkish and how Erdogan is causing no end of trouble. A very wonderful, human read at a time when the world seems to be descending further into a global bin fire. Putin is losing in Ukraine, has just called up 300k citizens into the army and is threatening nuclear war, Trump is desperately fighting back against the host of indictments and criminal charges he deservedly faces, hoping to survive until a change of control of congress in the midterms can be used to get him off the hook, and here at home the new Conservative government's response to the cost of living crisis is to borrow more to make the super wealthy super wealthier through tax cuts that benefit them most.
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