Tayyip

Thousands of people, many chanting anti-government slogans, gathered in central Ankara on Oct. 11 near the scene of bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people, mourning the victims of the most deadly attack of its kind on Turkish soil.

While some of the world?s top experts on demographics and population made fascinating presentations at the Swiss ambassador?s residence on a cool Ankara evening, I silently recalled a hot Ankara evening in 2007.