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After returning to Turkey for the first time in five years, my overall impression is of a country where, in the big-picture scheme of things, more is going right than wrong.

After returning to Turkey for the first time in five years, my overall impression is of a country where, in the big-picture scheme of things, more is going right than wrong.

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