"Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: No welcome – now the Turks don't even want to join Europe
Europe had the chance to end the chasm between Islam and the West. It chose to be bigoted
Monday, 4 August 2008
Just back from Dalyan in Turkey, a place of such natural beauty and human kindness you almost cry with relief and released joy. A lush river full of fat turtles and thin, dancing water snakes runs through the smallish town (only a hamlet when we last stopped over 15 years ago), making its way to the Aegean/Mediterranean seas, warm and playful. Although tourism is changing the nature of Dalyan, nobody hassles you and you don't begrudge the inhabitants the economic surge delivered by delighted visitors."
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