"Turkey hopes tourism will improve its image
By Benjamin Harvey
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Jan and Anita de Bruyne stood outside the Haghia Sophia, a magnificent sixth-century building that was once the world's largest church but is now a museum in a country that is 99-percent Muslim.
But the Dutch tourists weren't going inside. 'I've seen it too many times,' said Anita. Jan said it was his sixth trip to Turkey.
The de Bruynes are among some 22million tourists expected to visit Turkey this year - an increase of 25 percent over last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism."
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