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He had hiked several miles out of his way to help two American strangers, simply because he saw that we were lost.
That, in a nutshell, is Istanbul to me. I never met kinder or more gracious people anywhere.
During my two weeks in that city, I never heard a harsh word said about Americans or any other national group. No one ever uttered an ethnic or religious slur. They did not seem to have negative words for people who are different — they merely acknowledged the difference.
Now people are dying in Istanbul and President Bush says Turkey is a “front” in the war against terrorism. I don’t know what that means. I only know that I am sad.
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