[CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR] Istanbul’s Isle Of Diversity
A vestige of Turkey's multicultural past, Muslims, Jews, and Christians coexist happily on the Princes Islands.By Yigal SchleiferBurgaz lies less than an hour's ferry ride from the urban sprawl of Muslim-dominated Istanbul, but the unspoiled island teems with ethnic diversity. Part of an archipelago known as the Princes Islands, Burgaz and its sister islands have for decades been a summer home for Istanbul's minority communities, especially Jews, Greeks, and Armenians. Indeed, the hilly islands
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