OYENTE

Saul M

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Overall fascinating profile of Erdogan’s Turkey

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-18-20

The book gives a interesting look inside Erdogan’s Turkey. The author provides quick profiles of key supporters and certain opponents of Erdogan, as well as laying out the political maneuverings of Erdogan. His populism has entrenched his supporters so deep in power that it will take the opposition years to dig out Erdogan’s machine. As an American there are some comparisons to be made with trump, particularly with his opponents. The democrats need to provide an actual alternative vision of America that appeals to the working class instead of being the no vote.

However, some nitpicks in some of the author’s descriptions. One is how she described the YPG military marches as North Korean-like. Personally I found it unnecessary to compare them to North Korea, I’ve seen their marches before and the YPG’s marches aren’t as choreographed as NK’s. I’d like to know why she thinks that they’re North Korean like? Second is when she described the Tsarnaev brothers as Kyrgyz. I had to double take on that because they were Chechen (despite being born in Kyrgyzstan) and identified as such.

Overall a good read.

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Pronunciation is bad

Total
4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-11-17

The narrator cannot correctly pronounce Russian names at all. For a book written by an author as well versed in Eastern Europe, the narrator insulted her work by butchering pronunciation to the my great displeasure. If you're reading this narrator, Bukhta Nakhodka is pronounced Boo-(kh makes a hard h) -ta Na-khodka not Bookta nak hotka, the ship Dzurma is pronounced as Jur (like in jury) -ma, not the dezurema. Such butchering of names really killed much of the experience for this otherwise great book. Other than this, the narrator did ok.

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