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| Moving to Turkey was a bumpy rite of passage - Telegraph |
Moving to Turkey was a bumpy rite of passage
9:32AM GMT 27 Jan 2012
Just imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, recently married, middle-aged, middle-class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. The country in question was not Iran (we had no desire to be lynched from the nearest olive tree), but neighbouring Turkey, a secular nation practising a moderate, state-supervised brand of Islam. For us, Turkey was the perfect choice for our place in the sun since we’d been dipping our toes in this side of the Aegean for years and were already hooked. Added to this, we had to be within an easy commute of Blighty for family reasons; there could be no lazing on a beach in Thailand or Belize for us. The deal-clincher was that Turkey was outside the eurozone, so our money went that bit further.
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