{"id":23725,"date":"2013-06-17T00:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=23725"},"modified":"2013-06-17T00:19:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T00:19:54","slug":"turkey-and-the-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=23725","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and the unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — i don’t do much in the way of cat pics, so here’s a timely geopolitical unicorn for you ]
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What with the Whole Wired World looking a bit both “1984” and “Brave New” this week, and with Turkey clearly itching to up its rep as an authoritarian state, you might not think this would be the week a Turkish customs official would stamp a unicorn’s passport…<\/p>\n

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What can I tell you? Someone did. A Turkish customs official allowed this young British girl, Emily Harris<\/strong>, into Turkey by stamping her unicorn’s passport.<\/p>\n

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If I was Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/strong> — and I’m not, and unlikely yo be any time soon — I might want to give that man a medal for providing the one news item this week favorable to the Turkish tourist trade — at a time when images of tear gassings in hotels and water cannonades in parks can hardly be helping the country’s image as an attractive place to visit.<\/p>\n

Seriously — Public Diplomacy<\/strong>, one child’s passport at a time. <\/p>\n

And while you’re at it, quit gassing hotels with children in them<\/strong>, will you? It’s barbaric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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