Turkish Awakening (2014)
“As opposed to the old, Puritanical ethos which had inspired people to accumulate a modest fortune year by year, the new aim has been described by the historian H. W. Brands as ‘the dream of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck’.There are no equivalent gold reserves in Turkey, but there are infinite business opportunities, and people hungry and audacious enough to seize them in an economy developing at speed. Turks are a curious mix of big dreamers and risk-averse, middle...-class plodders. There are nearly as many billionaires in Turkey as there are in France and Japan combined, and the number of lira millionaires in Turkey rose from seven thousand to more than fifty thousand in 2012. There are also many Puritan equivalents, the religious lower middle class, who are happy to ensconce themselves in traditional jobs like tailoring or shopkeeping, modest but secure. When big dreamers succeed, their success is all-embracing, attended by huge celebrity.İbrahim Tatlıses (‘Abraham Sweet Voice’) is a Kurdish Arabesque pop singer and alleged mafia king who has created a massive business empire from nothing.MoreLess
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