So excellent were Turkish aqueducts, Turkish wells, Turkish baths, in the Middle Ages, that complacent Turkish conservatives have not dreamed of improving them for the past 500 years. Young Turks campaigning for modern waterworks for Turkey's larger cities seized on the "Duck Catastrophe" at Ihlamour last week, argued emotionally in the Turkish press.
In Ihlamour, suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water...
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