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The Turkish Files

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 It was about 3 or 4 years back, my family and I had decided that we go on a trip to visit a country which is known to fall or lie on either ends of the Asian continent and the European continent. It is a country known for its extraordinary roots that go deep down in history right from the time of the last Roman Emperors- Justinian and Diocletian to the rise and fall of the well known and revered Ottoman Empire of the Islamic period in history. It is none other than the country of Turkey. It was around the months of July-August 2017 as far as I could remember when we had made the trip to Turkey when at that time was the peak or onset of the hot summer months back then in the U.A.E. In my memory as far as I could remember, we had not travelled via Turkish Airlines, but had boarded another airline- a bit less costly as compared to Turkish Airlines to take us to the place which we had in mind for our summer holidays that year. We stayed at a small hotel in an area not very far off- ...