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Pointing the way to Mecca: Karagöz questions how to share space on Turkish Airlines


Before it registered that I was waking up in the airplane, mid-flight from Istanbul to New York, I could hear Karagöz swinging back and forth.  It was even more than an instant before I remembered that I was returning home … Continue reading

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