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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.