An Ill Anatolian Wind

First, an obituary (Via Au Fil du Bosphore):

Fuat Deniz, a Swedish national and a sociologist of Syriac origin, was stabbed to death in his offices at the University of Örebro in Sweden. Mr. Deniz research fellow examining the Assyro-Chaldean massacres of 1915.

Turkish pianist Fazıl Say told Süddeutsche Zeintung: "The Islamists have won. They now represent 70% of Turks and the secularists 30%. I'm thinking of moving elsewhere."