The steady stream of foreigners who passed through Hatay and Gaziantep made little effort to remain discreet, gathering regularly in local hotels, coffee shops and bus stations.
While his war council meets downstairs in the White House situation room, his economic team has been gathering regularly several floors above, even calling in Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, to bring the latest economic data.
On a recent evening, I attended one of these meetings in a spacious living room in suburban Maryland, where about 50 former ambassadors and administration officials, mostly from the Clinton era, have been gathering regularly to grill the party's presidential candidates.
He'd moved from Texas to San Francisco in January of 2013 and started going to Bitcoin meet-ups at 20 Mission, where business-minded Bitcoin types were gathering regularly to talk about how to build companies and services to build infrastructure around the cryptocoin and make it easier for "normal" people to use it.
Now the gathering regularly attracts 150 to 200 car owners who arrive at 6 a.m. each Saturday in everything from vintage sports cars and woodie wagons to street rods and '60s muscle cars.
She said such gatherings occur regularly on warm spring evenings.
"Security agencies prevented political and cultural gatherings, and regularly detain and try Kurdish activists demanding increased political rights and recognition of Kurdish culture," the report noted.
I mention Enchantress Sao's very friendly and welcoming Pagan realms at Gaia Rising and Anam Turnas where events, rituals, classes and gatherings are regularly held to honour the sacred seasons and to learn more about the spiritual paths within nature, as also do the Druids Of The Second Realm, an offshoot seed group of OBOD (The Order Of Bards Ovates and Druids in 'Real' Life).
Medical services were not available onsite, but communal meals and social gatherings occurred regularly.
