Originally Posted by
bocastephen
It's the gateway to Asia, and a beautiful country worth visiting - and instead of flying UA (and risking being thrown off the flight for taking a photo or asking for a drink refill or reading the wrong magazine or admiring a photo of an airplane on your laptop, etc etc etc), one can enjoy the amazing product quality and friendly hospitality in the premium economy cabin of TK for a very reasonable price.
Agreed. I always enjoy my trips to Turkey.
In the context of this thread, I do find a lot of Americans misplace Turkey in the Middle East, and even on page one the terms 'terrorist' and 'Middle East' were used together, both hot buttons with many people in the US.
It wasn't a flight to the Middle East; it was a flight to
Europe's 6th busiest airport, located in a secular democratic republic.
I was vocal about having the Europe forum on FT renamed to accurately reflect the location of Turkey as I was sick and tired of having to find information under the wrong fora.