Over the past five years, Turkey has spent millions of dollars on campaigns in the United States to promote tourism, but one good word in the globally respected New York Times is worth more than 1,000 ads. The travel section of the Times' Sunday...
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Over the past five years, Turkey has spent millions of dollars on campaigns in the United States to promote tourism, but one good word in the globally respected New York Times is worth more than 1,000 ads. The travel section of the Times' Sunday edition provided just that boost this week by ranking Istanbul one of the top &65533;Foodie Destinations� in its �Where to Go in 2008!� Times reporter Matt Gross presents Turkey as next year's food capital and dishes out some savory prose to prove it: The article praises Istanbul's cosmopolitan structure, drawing parallels between Turkish cuisine and the city's multiculturalism. &65533;Yet despite that profusion of identities, Istanbul, a city whose population is put anywhere from 10 million to 15 million, feels like a singular city, intent on its own development,� Gross wrote. �Never mind the fluctuating prospect of European Union membership, the Kurdish issue and the erosion of secular government, Istanbul has eco-skyscrapers to erect,... See less 
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