Andrew Finkel

Articles de cet auteur (3)

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  A visa to Europe

  7 April 2009

  For people in my profession, more gratifying than the memory of their first kiss is the memory of their first front-page news story, and I suspect it will come as no surprise that I am about to tell you the story of mine.
  It was 20 years ago that I mustered my nascent investigative skills to investigate the mysterious closure of the social club that was located just inside the gate at the British Consulate in İstanbul. The answer warranted a little paragraph at the bottom of the front page (...)

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  Two sides, same coin

  15 mai 2008

  I’ve been asked the question enough, so you’d think I would have the answer down pat. It’s a question posed coyly, like a preening middle-aged lady trying to straighten the line of her dress. « So what, » the Turkish nation asks, « does the world really think of Turkey ? »
  I am never quite sure how to reply except to say what I think of Turkey. However, in my heart I know my views are not necessarily typical of the other 6.6 billion inhabitants of the globe. The obvious difference between us is (...)

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  Sarkozy teste le sang-froid des Turcs

  18 décembre 2007

  Comment la Turquie peut-elle transformer ce non* en oui* ? Les partisans européens d’Ankara conseillaient de manifester de la colère, pendant une semaine où le Premier ministre turc accusa le président français d’être un menteur, un hypocrite, et où l’Association des industriels et hommes d’affaires turcs (TÜSIAD), le plus grand syndicat patronal de Turquie, a publié une déclaration parlant d’un comportement « illégal », et même « pathologique ».
  « La route vers Bruxelles a toujours été sinueuse », a (...)