Dear All, The two messages below should give you some idea regarding the above question:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg12786.html http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg12788.html I send these not because I am in full agreement with their respective authors but because I suffer from the exact same pain that they are suffering from. As you may be able to deduce from these messages, the pessimism I have been displaying on PEN-L for quite some time now cannot be just because of my personal, and now definitely, fucked up psychology. We are not doing well my friends, we are not doing well!.. After about a month in Turkey, I just came back to Berkeley yesterday and am still jet-lagged. I will write a summary of my observations back there in a few days. Let me say this before I go to bed though: in Turkey, HOPE is "mostly" dead, borrowing a concept Billy Cristal introduced in the movie "The Princess Bride, 1987". We, that is, the peoples of Turkey, desparately need work very hard to bring HOPE back to life, though no body seems doing anything meaningful. Best, Sabri
