Tag: Ottoman Empire
Sobre la mesa, un banquete geopolítico, servido por algunas de las mejores mentes analíticas independientes, desde Bursa hasta Diyarbakir.
Conversazione con Pepe Escobar sul futuro dello Stato turco.
I don’t mean the people depicted in stone in the British Museum, with angular beards riding chariots surrounded by lions – although there is an interesting scholarly debate about whether these are their direct descendants – but the few thousand Christians scattered among a few dozen villages in the hills of Tur Abdin in south east Turkey, a stone’s throw from the Syrian border.
Though the U.S. and Israeli military have done a good job at stealing the show, and though they certainly believe themselves to be the head of the show, the reality is that this age of empire is distinctly British.
