Keeping Turkey out of Europe | David Cronin

More than 22 years after it first applied, Turkey's entry to the EU is still blocked by human rights concerns – and subtle prejudice Istanbul is haunted by a unique type of melancholy, Orhan Pamuk writes in his wondrous book on Turkey's largest city. Known as hüzün, "the black mood shared by millions of people together" is particularly dense on cold winter mornings "when the sun suddenly falls on the Bosphorus and the faint vapour almost rises from the surface". Many Turks must be overcome by a comparable...