And in California, Andrew Quady makes a glorious Black Muscat that smells of Turkish delight and rose petals.

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After all that running around you will deserve a scrub and soak at a Turkish bath house, an experience introduced in detail in Rose Mulready's "A guide to Istanbul bath houses".

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Indeed, since the AKP rose to power in 2002, it has distanced Turkey from both Israel and the US while warming Turkish relations with Iran and Syria.

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