"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
By Pam, 7:04 am, Wed 17 May 2006
Last winter I read Birds Without Wings, a fat and delicious book about small town trials and tribulations at the end of the Ottoman Empire. I never did figure out exactly where the town was, but it was clearly at the crossroads of what is now Turkey and 'Western' Europe."
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