Flattened by a falafel
Tom Keneally; 7/2/08
Recently SBS screened a documentary that analysed Turkish television as a reflection of the concerns of the Turkish people, caught as they are between the blandishments of the US and the European Union, and less secular Muslim regimes to the east. Turks like to be seen as living in an advanced state, despite, for example, their Government’s persecution of novelist Orhan Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year. In any case, the program revealed that the most controversial show on Turkish TV was a contemporary drama about a Greek boy who falls in love with a Turkish girl. Their respective families treat their intention to marry as a calamity perhaps worse than death.
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