I'm in Istanbul right now. Interesting city, which might become even more interesting here soon with the recent election of openly Islamic Abdulah Gül as Turkey's 11th President. Turkish law explicitly requires a strict separation of religion and state, i.e. secular governance, but Turkey's 99.8% Muslim population lawfully voted in a very outspoken Muslim from an Islamic party. Contradictions abound. We'll see what happens.
Turkey has been neat, met some great people, had some great experiences, I'll elaborate here soon.
Tomorrow I'm flying to Athens, which hopefully won't be greeting me with flames...
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