Currently I live in Istanbul/Turkey but I will be moving to Palm Desert next year and will be flipping houses.

I would take one of the cruises that starts in Athens or Istanbul and ends up in Singapore... catching the holy land suez canal arab emertis few stops in India  Sri Lanka  then over to Thailand and end up in Singapore.. then from there fly to Sydney and take a reposition cruze back to San Deigo  via south pacific route or over to south America. 

Since then, I've lived in Munich, Germany and Istanbul, Turkey, and have a rental in Istanbul as well.  

Our company NRG Ltd. is a family owned architecture company in Istanbul for ten years.

I was once at a carpet store in Istanbul, and frustrated with the way the haggle was going, so I threw in the offer of a camel.

Kohlman also blamed IHH for assisting the Iraqi Sunni insurgency, and mentioned a 1997 raid in which police found weapons, explosives and bomb-making instructions in the IHH headquarter in Istanbul.[5] Turkish authorities searched IHH headquarters in 1997, discovering "firearms, explosives, bomb-making instructions" as well as records of calls to an al-Qaida guest house in Milan.[5]

I am currently in Istanbul as well and have a couple friends who can help you. 

Suburb of Istanbul?

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I like the one that leaves either Istanbul or Athens and ends up in Hong Kong.. other than some pirates its a pretty safe way to travel these days I thinklast place for us to go I Aussie land so we are thinking go there spend a week or so then cruise to Tahiti ..