Zeynep Tufekci: belief

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…Two final questions. First, let’s say you’re designing a trip to Turkey for us. Put aside COVID. Obviously, we’re visiting Istanbul, but two weeks — where do you send us other than Istanbul? I have never been to Mardin. It’s in the southeast region. It’s Syrian Kurdish and Armenian and Turkish in history. Amazing and beautiful architecture, and I’ve never been there. I would like to take us all on a trip that I’m coming along for Mardin, which is a place I’ve heard a lot about. Everybody knows Aegean, and I don’t really need to explain it. It’s the other side of the Greek Islands. It’s just the most beautiful place, but you know about it already. Another place that’s, I think, less known is the Black Sea region, where you have dramatic green hills meet the sea, not like San Francisco because the hills are very steep, and then you have a fairly little strip. Very different climate and visuals. There’s a lot of historic stuff there, too, because obviously, it was the Ottoman Empire for a long time, but before that, it was the last bit of the Greek, East Roman empires and countries too. There’s a lot of history there as well. Two interesting places outside the usual tourist places. Before we turn to the audience, last question from me: what will you be doing next?…

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