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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 23:19:17 JST Adrianna Tan

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   • Madeleine Morris

   @Remittancegirl I love Istanbul so much too.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 23:19:18 JST Madeleine Morris

     I have had the pleasure and honour of having Turkish co-workers at my university, who were so ridiculously over-educated and such polymaths it was embarrassing to the rest of us. I think what breaks my heart most is that I absolutely fell in love with Istanbul - which, of course, I understand, is not all of Turkey.

     But it was one of the most quietly tolerant and inclusive cities I’d ever been to. Perhaps because of its history - millennia, perhaps because of its geographic location.