Bending knee to Sultan

There’s just something about festive receptions “with the highest state honors”. Since there are no lowest honors, in this case the superlative only underlines the spectacle with lined-up troops, reports, forced hospitality and military music. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a man who, in July last year, survived a military coup, one of the favorite forms of power change in Turkey, came to visit us. After this miserable attempt at a coup, Erdoğan became a