"Istanbul's Exotic East A Visual, Aural Feast
By ARLINE and SAM BLEECKER | Chicago Tribune
April 20, 2008
ISTANBUL, Turkey - At 5:30 a.m., Istanbul awakens to the sound of the muezzin's call to prayer. As the monophonic tones blare over loudspeakers throughout this city of minarets and mosques, they draw the many faithful to worship.
Though we are not Muslim, we stir to the sounds. We are here, in this ancient land on the Bosporus, in a hotel, on a one-day pre-cruise stay before embarking on a Mediterranean cruise."
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