"Adrenaline-fuelled Turks sense greatness in their grasp
Many things have changed in Turkey since May 1968: the cost of a rail ticket, for instance, then £40 for a third-class return from London on the old twice-weekly Direct-Orient Express, or the population of Istanbul, then around 750,000, mostly living in handsome wooden fire-hazards, but now more than 11m, largely quartered in concrete apartment blocks. At least two things, however, remain exactly the same: the ornate 19th-century Sirkeci rail terminus, where a portrait of Ataturk hangs over the mahogany desk in the station master's immaculate office, and the passion for football."
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