Sabanci: towards the fifth generation
Unlike western Europeans and Japanese, who excel at operating as communities, the Turks are at their best as families. The family is extended, strongly male-dominated, patriarchal and autocratic. It commands more loyalty than the community or the state. During eight centuries of Ottoman rule – when all land belonged to the sultan and private-property rights were difficult to establish – the family was the main source of security. It still is.
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