Turkey days

I can’t proclaim any great affection for Turkey, despite living in its capital city for one year followed by the next summer, 1961-62, and 1963, but it was an unusual experience. Learning, for instance, about Islamic intolerance for other religions, particularly Christianity. Nevertheless, this site set up by military personnel who have called the country home is intriguing–some when I did, others later. But it mostly speaks to the past, when Turkey was our solid ally, rather than the present when, despite years of military largesse, permission to send an American infantry division into northern Iraq in 2003 was denied.