An unusual gate for an exotic entry.

I was supposed to be off from work today, but found out in the morning that a court had ordered my newspaper to be taken over by trustees, because the Turkish government doesn’t like us or a free press (and this will be just one more in a series of such takeovers). So I have been working all day, waiting for the ax to fall, but the police haven’t shown up at our building yet in Istanbul. Talk about a stressful “day at the office”!

Elaborate, posted earlier: