the cultural battle unfortunately was in the first hours of the new year with this terrible luddy attackevents by its —— islamist i to hold events by its —— islamist 's? freedom of speech is not necessarily guaranteed. but when they started to target people celebrating christmas or new year 's via billboards and public announcements, the government has been extremely tolerant of such discourse. many people chose to stay at home. they don't feel secure enough to go out. many of the street parties were cancelled. this was quite low—key in terms of a new year celebration but that still did not prevent this attack. a think it's important to disentangle the two different phenomena here. on the one hand, yes, a horrible islamic state attack and as we all know, there are tax all around the world and it is difficult to contain them. —— attacks. but turkey also has an other battle. a battle for its orientation. 0n the one hand, a vision of a more inclusive multicultural turkey where new years and christmas celebrations are commonplace and on the other hand, are more in tolerant and more authorita