Michael J. Totten says this about Istanbul: "Someone needs to force Hosni Mubarak to spend an entire month in Beyoglu – downtown Istanbul – so he can see more or less what Cairo would look like if it had decent management. Istanbul kicks ass, in other words, and I couldn’t help but compare it to the deplorable state of Mubarak’s broken capital city."

Turkey may deserve European membership -- will they let the Kurds leave in a democratic referendum?