Orham Pahmuk's Nobel speech is in this week's New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061225fa_fact1

The author of Istanbul and Snow, etc, has more to say on his family, Turkishness, and writing. Fascinating.

And then closer to home, Patrick Lang offers this succinct analysis for a Concert of the Middle East that George W. Bush should read, but, in any case, we citizens should take this seriously.  http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/files/a_concert_of_the_greater_middle_east.doc

UPDATE   For those wanting to talk about the possibilities of diplomacy, please go to post immediately above; the arm chair warriors can have this post! Poor Mr. Pahmuk.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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