Suggestion to also consider gender.
EaseNGrace
joined 11 months ago
I lived in Istanbul (Gungoren) for three months.
After visiting 25 countries, it was the only place:
I was sexually assaulted
was never picked up by Uber after trying over 25 times during the day while seeing men be picked up and being assured Uber worked there,
was in the city when a terrorist bomb attack happened in a tourist area
I was also taken advantage of in a slimy way - also happened in other countries, but still.
It seems sexist and hypocritical.
I met a lot of pro-Trump Turkish people.
(PS The sexual assault was on mass transit and was over the clothes thrusting - the train was so packed I could barely turn around and when I did I couldn't identify who it was. )
I went there because the exchange rate was appealing and was game to experience some of the magic I was told I'd find there. I never once found anything magical about it, regardless of the other things. Food is very, very meat based - difficult to find healthy, veg options. Fun fact - they don't have jacuzzis there, like in a health club, that both men and women can use. If they have them for women I never found one.
Highly judgemental people who are terribly uniformed and don't care to be informed is a dangerous cocktail that invites conflict.