ALANYA - The Taurus Mountains are home to the oldest Turkish lifestyle. Yürüks have never given up their nomadic culture and have carried it through the centuries. Today, however, the Yürük lifestyle is eroding away and appears destined to die, only to remain in books and museums.
It is one of those occasions where you are called to decipher a strange phenomenon and to give a logical answer: the media of two countries while reporting on each other, are seeing a totally different picture: as if two people are looking at the same landscape, yet they are seeing entirely difference scenes.
"What happened to your country? He was just 15, what did they think he could do, just 15! How can you lift the gun and point at a child," said Mehmet Bey, the owner of Kardesler market at the corner of my street on the eastern part of Istanbul, as he was giving me the rest of a 50 lira note. "They are the same here. They shoot children too," he said. "But you do not complain," I said. "Yes, you are right. But even if we do, you see yourself, nothing changes."