@Dang, can we have a rule about editing away clickbaity headlines?
The story here seems to be: coffee shops allowed people another venue to socialize and challenge existing power structures.
There is nothing special about Turkish coffee and coffee may not even have been important. As people got educated and had more free time, they may have found other venues to communicate and exchange ideas. 'Increasing leisure time and freedom destroyed an autocratic empire' may be a more accurate and still interesting headline that takes the discussion away from complaints about the headline.
> As people got educated and had more free time, they may have found other venues to communicate and exchange ideas.
The point is that in this particular case it was the coffee shops. They were popular, they were profitable, they were lead by “literate people” (something to think about).
It’s interesting to think about why this thing happened in these kinds of places. There are other examples of revolutions instead being triggered from religious places, from work places, from battlefields... the “non-uniqueness” is debatable.
Even just the tidbit about state power being unable to outright shut these down. There are so many axes you can go down when thinking about it. There’s the power struggle itself, both between state and capital and between state and the people (which ones though?). There are difficulties of empire. There’s so much.
There is already such a rule. If you think the title is bad and/or have a better one, just email the mods. I'm not sure 'provocative' or even 'factually wrong' is really the sort of thing the rules are trying to address, though.
Except that Increasing leisure time and freedom destroyed an autocratic empire isn't what the article says, and autocratic seems editorialising hugely (the Ottoman empire was no more autocratic than other empires and in many ways less so).
I think your complain here is that the article is wrong. That has little to do with the headline, which summarises the article's argument quite well.
The story here seems to be: coffee shops allowed people another venue to socialize and challenge existing power structures.
There is nothing special about Turkish coffee and coffee may not even have been important. As people got educated and had more free time, they may have found other venues to communicate and exchange ideas. 'Increasing leisure time and freedom destroyed an autocratic empire' may be a more accurate and still interesting headline that takes the discussion away from complaints about the headline.