He seemed to tense up slightly as we left the mosque and wandered into one of Istanbul’s hard-core Sunni neighborhoods.
“We could be in a different country,” he said in a soft voice.
Salafist men with long beards and skullcaps sat on benches in tidy plazas;
women in black abayas walked with their children down a cobblestone street past
a madrassa, an Islamic school.
-Joshua Hammer
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