"Beggars’ Opera: Poverty in Europe's Streets
From the desk of Alexandra Colen on Wed, 2006-06-07 08:16
I had expected that travelling from Turkey to Greece would be like travelling from a poor country to a richer one. After all, Greece is part of the European Union (EU), while Turkey is not. Hence, taking the ferry recently from the Turkish town of Bodrum (the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassos, birthplace of Herodotos, the “father of history”) to the Greek island and town of Kos (birthplace of Hippocrates, the “father of medicine”) I was struck by a phenomenon in Kos which I had not seen in Turkey the previous week. Both Kos and Bodrum are affluent tourist resorts, but whereas in Bodrum one does not meet any beggars, one is accosted by them whenever one visits a church in Kos or walks through the ruins of the forum in the town center."
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