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Article: Turkey: an anatomy of boredom.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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TURKEY is a boring country. This is very surprising. Why it should be dull is one of the few real mysteries left to international travellers. Istanbul exemplifies this unhappily. Of all the really great cities it is the most sterile. It is a hygienic, well-fed, well-scrubbed place, and the charisma has been scrubbed off with the dirt.
It should be a deafeningly resonant place. It is strange that the hooves of the Mongols' ponies and the hooting of the riff-raff of the Fourth Crusade and the harem grunts of the sultans in Topkapi Palace should have been so completely drowned out. It is easy to suppose that they have been overwhelmed by the revving of the tour buses and ...
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