Originally Posted by senor_jefe

I personally would not be (and wasn't) concerned about the safety issue when travelling to IST. I felt safe at all times during the week I was there (except in the taxis...especially to and from the airport...) and I was just around the corner from the site of the HSBC bombing. If I were in London at the same time...I would have been in the middle of the 7/7 bombings...