By Alexander Billinis
There was once, besides the fact that, an issue—they appeared like exact twins. Osman, the extra considerate of the 2, couldn't get this similarity out of his brain. It set him on a quest to peel again the plaster of Turkish and Greek nationwide identities, to discover the mosaic beneath.
This is the most topic of the unconventional, but given the “millennium-long tender and lethal embody” of Greece and Turkey, and the days in query, the mid 2010s, there are a number of vital subtexts to the tale. First, there's the commercial obstacle in Greece, which affects a semi-employed divorced father like Yiannis and activates ideas of emigration to relations in Australia. moment, there's the crony capitalist increase in Turkey, the place a nouveau riche classification of Islamists from the Anatolian inside conflict with city, urbane, secular Turks. Osman, son of a Turkish colonel, American proficient and avowedly secular, with a liberal spouse, feels more and more like a fish out of water in Erdogan's Turkey.
Throughout the paintings, on each side of the Aegean, the open wounds of the Nineteen Twenties Greek-Turkish inhabitants alternate, centuries of Greek-Turkish conflicts, the Greek Civil warfare, and different ethno-religious conflicts within the Balkans, so much particularly Yugoslavia within the Nineteen Nineties, floor always within the lives of either the most protagonists, their households and friends.
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