Catering to expectations

Camel

This is the closest you’ll see to an April Fools’ joke from me— the crazy idea that Turkey equals camels. I’ve never, ever seen an actual Turk riding around on a camel in Turkey. The only place I’ve ever seen camels is in special designated tourist areas, as a novelty where foreigners can pay money to ride around on the camel and have their photos taken. I guess a lot of people who come to Turkey have this false notion that it’s a land of deserts and camels, which of course it’s not at all, but when tourism is one of the big revenue generators, sometimes I suppose you have to give visitors what they expect.

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