GABRIEL ARIE

What strikes a Bulgarian when he enters Turkey is, before everything else, the air of freedom that one breathes. Under a theoretically despotic government, one definitely enjoys more freedom than in constitutional state…one almost does not feel that there is a government…the absence of an irksome police, of crushing taxation, or very heavy civic duties here is what the non-Muslim subjects of the Sultan should appreciate.

What strikes a Bulgarian when he enters Turkey is, before everything else, the air of freedom that one breathes. Under a theoretically despotic government, one definitely enjoys more freedom than in constitutional state…one almost does not feel that there is a government…the absence of an irksome police, of crushing taxation, or very heavy civic duties here is what the non-Muslim subjects of the Sultan should appreciate.