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Celebratory Gunfire, Occasional Deaths Inexplicable Feature of Turkish Life
11 May 2008
Today's Zaman (Istanbul), Column
I have always been awed by the inability of people around me to celebrate joyful events. Weddings and soccer games that end victoriously are celebrated with guns held aloft, fired incessantly into the air. Someone who is not familiar with the local culture may feel they have fallen into an ambush, just as the foreign guests did at the wedding ceremony of one of my younger family members last year. They gathered around me in bewilderment asking why. I had such a hard... (GunPolicy.org)