Originally Posted by JonNYC
Don't worry about IST, it's fine-- and fantastically beautiful. Just go.
I'm not explaining myself well... I'm not worried about IST; I know it's fine; I have been there many, many times and I know it is fantastically beautiful, that's why I return time and time again and will continue to go; I agree with you. But, what I am talking about is going against a government travel advisory, and that's why I feel the US comment is *not* a good point, because there's no such travel advisory for the US, so the comparison is not relevant at all.
BTW, you list "Madrid" as one of your homes. I love Madrid, but haven't there have been far, far more terrorist-inflicted causalities there than in IST recently? I don't think one can or should plan their lives around terrorist's intentions, or predictions of same.
Of course, there have been hundreds and hundreds of people killed in Madrid over the years, I agree with the above, and practice it nearly every day, as I take a train going through the same station, on the very same route the ones involved in the recent tragedy did. But, if the Madrid authorities issued an advisory saying "don't go here or there" I would follow that advice, and that doesn't mean I let the authorities plan my life around anything.