Thomas Seibert is an Istanbul-based correspondent. A German national, he worked for AFP, Reuters and the New York Times before moving to Turkey in 1997. He also spent two years in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. correspondent for the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel.

SLIMEBALLS

A real sex scandal at a school allied to the Turkish president leads to accusations of sexual and political deviation, with the one hard to tell from the other.