Articles by James Tressler

May 2015

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Journey of Muses

April 2015

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: An Obama Flashback

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Massacre Orchestra

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Faces in the Crowd

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Five Years Gone

March 2015

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Revolutionary

February 2015

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: When Santa Met The Janissary

January 2015

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: On Account

December 2014

Letter from Istanbul: Beyond La Dolce Vita

LETTER FROM ITALY: Florentines for a Day

November 2014

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: City of Horizons

LETTER FROM PRAGUE: Sad Jokes

October 2014

Letter from Istanbul: On Sacrifice, and Meeting Sir Isaac Newton

September 2014

Letter from Istanbul: Living in the New Turkey

Letter from Istanbul: The Camel, the Polar Bear and the Delivery Boy

August 2014

A Prague Memory: Thoughts for Aspiring Journalists

Letter from Slovakia: The Bride of the Tatras

Letter from Istanbul: Observations on Style

Letter from Istanbul: Erdogan’s Turkey: A Trapped Oasis

July 2014

Letter from Istanbul: Some Time in Dalyan

Letter From Istanbul: So How Was New York?

June 2014

Letter From Istanbul: The Dispossessed

Letter from Istanbul: Taksim Revisited, One Year On

May 2014

Letter From Istanbul: Last of the Sultans

Letter from Istanbul: The Tragedy at Soma

March 2014

Letter from Istanbul: ‘The Ottoman Slap’

Letter from Istanbul: Erdogan’s Endgame

Letter from Istanbul: The Death of Berkin Elvan

Letter from Istanbul: A Night at the ‘Amerikan Hospital’

Letter from Istanbul: Living With Dissent

January 2014

Letter from Istanbul: Immigrant Tales

Letter from Istanbul Trouble in Turkey — A Story of Corruption and its Consequences

December 2013

Letter from Istanbul: The Cat

November 2013

LETTER FROM 2005 PRAGUE: Meeting Lou Reed and Vaclav Havel

October 2013

Letter from Istanbul: Halal and Haram

Letter From Istanbul: Apples and Yogurt

Letter From Istanbul: A Glass of Wine

September 2013

Letter From 2003: The Recall of District Attorney Paul De Santos

Letter from Istanbul: Warships in the Bosphorous

August 2013

Letter from Istanbul: Are We Ready for War? Are We Ever?

July 2013

Letter from Istanbul: The Funniest Joke I Never Understood

Letter from Istanbul: Remembering the Sivas Massacre

June 2013

Letter From Istanbul: An Age of Dissent

Letter from Istanbul: Chapulling in The Summer of Taksim

Letter from Istanbul: The Taksim Square Protests

May 2013

Letter from Istanbul: At the May Day Demonstration

April 2013

Letter from Istanbul: Cappadocia

Letter from Istanbul: Studio of Laughter

March 2013

Letter from Istanbul: A Nevruz Peace

Letter from Istanbul: Fetih