"Travel: Turkey
by Eda Seyhan | 00:56 GMT, Mon 3rd November 2008
Since I began visiting Turkey frequently as a child, I've always thought that it must be one of the strangest countries on Earth. It borders Iran and Greece, but it's not European and not exactly Middle Eastern. It has elections and a heavy military intrusion into politics, but it's not really a democracy nor a military regime. It's home to enormous wealth, in the mansions on the Bosphorous with their multitude of Bentleys, and great poverty. It's taken so much from the West and yet remains so idiosyncratically Turkish. It's confused and confusing, and one of the most interesting destinations in the world."
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