Luxury-loving Turks squeezed between economics and status anxiety
“Why even bother to buy a luxury brand if it is not instantly recognized as one?” asks my friend as she fiddles with her multicolor Celine handbag. We have gone out together for a New Year shopping spree and I am already beginning to regret the decision. My friend, a 40-something “corporate Barbie” who works […]
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Rich Beach: How Turks worry and party simultaneously
The concern in political developments is written on the bronzed faces; the eagerness to fight for our values and civil disobedience are all evident in the Facebook and Twitter messages; fears of economic instability are reflected in the 100-lira (half of last year) tips to the beach valets and sorrows are drowned in glasses of […]
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