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My Istanbul: An Idyllic Tourist Mecca, and the Perfect Target for an Attack
It will be hard to go back to seeing Istanbul the way I once did. Sadly, we are reaching an age in which few cities worth visiting will be untouched by terrorism.
Ilene Prusher Jun 29, 2016 8:20 AM
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A Turkish police officer directs a passenger at Ataturk airport in Istanbul June 28, 2016 after two explosions followed by gunfire hit Turkey's biggest airport.Ozan Kose, AFP
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Just a few weeks ago, I was happily transiting through the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. On my flight to and from Israel, I would need to stopover somewhere, and having lived in Turkey for nearly two years, I choose Istanbul over a European capital any day.
The airport’s security is considered to be quite good, the shopping is almost as fun as a trip to the city’s Grand Bazaar, and I look at any trip back to Turkey, however short, as a chance to rediscover my Turkish or get a su borek, a distant and superior cousin of the Israeli boreka. Plus, when I booked my flight about six weeks earlier, the $715 fare on Turkish Airlines was almost half the cost of that on El Al.
A friend looked askance at my flight plans. “Oh,” I said with a dismissive and knowing attitude. “I feel very comfortable in Turkey. I lived in Istanbul for almost two years.”
“Things have changed a bit since then,” he replied.
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My Istanbul: An Idyllic Tourist Mecca, and the Perfect Target for an Attack
It will be hard to go back to seeing Istanbul the way I once did. Sadly, we are reaching an age in which few cities worth visiting will be untouched by terrorism.
Ilene Prusher Jun 29, 2016 8:20 AM
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A Turkish police officer directs a passenger at Ataturk airport in Istanbul June 28, 2016 after two explosions followed by gunfire hit Turkey's biggest airport.Ozan Kose, AFP
Istanbul airport bombings kill 36 people, leave 147 wounded
Suspected ISIS fighters arrested in Istanbul for planned attack on transgender march
Just a few weeks ago, I was happily transiting through the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. On my flight to and from Israel, I would need to stopover somewhere, and having lived in Turkey for nearly two years, I choose Istanbul over a European capital any day.
The airport’s security is considered to be quite good, the shopping is almost as fun as a trip to the city’s Grand Bazaar, and I look at any trip back to Turkey, however short, as a chance to rediscover my Turkish or get a su borek, a distant and superior cousin of the Israeli boreka. Plus, when I booked my flight about six weeks earlier, the $715 fare on Turkish Airlines was almost half the cost of that on El Al.
A friend looked askance at my flight plans. “Oh,” I said with a dismissive and knowing attitude. “I feel very comfortable in Turkey. I lived in Istanbul for almost two years.”
“Things have changed a bit since then,” he replied.
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