Kocatepe mosque, Ankara. Wikimedia/Bjorn Christian Torrensen. Creative Commons.On the ninth of October, I had a long discussion with a renowned European professor about Europe and non-Europeans, about the West and the East in a nice, neat café, somewhere in the Western Europe.
On the tenth of October, two blasts took place at a peace rally in my hometown, Ankara. Almost one hundred people were killed.
On the ninth of October, my European professor told me that there is nothing that I can pinpoint as Europe and non-Europe. There is, that is to say, nothing that one can address as the West and the East. Their histories were, so said she, too intimately intertwined that one would not be able to discern one or the other.
