I was on the south side of that bridge last week, ate at the Hamdi restaurant. There was a large police van with a cordon of 5 or 6 policemen armed with AK47s around it, near the Egyptian bazaar, I had never seen that before. The Turks are the best comrades we have in the Muslim world. I hope they are sucessful in their own terror war.
Hey, Infidel, I've been to the Hamdi too.....and the Egyptian bazaar --big tourist attractions. But full of Turks too. Happy to hear those places are guarded. When I was there ten years ago, there were Army guys camped around all the popular ruins--Ephesus, etc, ostensibly to keep tourists from snatching valuable artifacts, but even then, probably keeping an eye on would-be terrorists who'd like to wreck everything in Turkiye that might attract infidels like us.