Birds Without Wings
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There is only one woman completely enrobed in black, in the Iranian style. There is another who is also clothed in black, except that she wears an ordinary black headscarf and skirt, and a black T-shirt. She is trying to be both East and West, and she is indeed fortunate that she is innocent of the English tongue, for her T-shirt bears the immodest and un-Islamic message “Red Hot and Ready to Go.”
All this is quite normal and unremarkable for the town of Fethiye, whose old name was Telmessos, meaning “City of Light,” or “Megri,” meaning “The Faraway Land.” The truly anomalous and remarkable thing about Fethiye, its market and the region of Lycia, is that there are no Greeks.
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