"Op-Ed
Turkish Dawn
September 12, 2008 - 12:00am
By Alex Kantrowitz
ISTANBUL — The stakes were high, the parties present and the fight about to begin. From the outside, it would look as if the odds were not in my favor. Seven of them. One of me. But, matter it did not — I was about to take them on.
This was my introduction to Turkey. Not ten minutes after I left Atatürk International Airport I heard the words that no foreign traveler ever wants to hear — “Big Problem.” The man telling me this had realized the price quote given at the airport had been off and was trying to convey that I was going to have to pay more to get to my destination. I wasn’t having it."
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