lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Turkey: The Secular and the Islamic

  
  
     
  
  
  
     
  
  
  
     
  
  
  
     
  
  
  
     
  
  
  
     
  
  
Turks walk along the port esplanade next to fish vendors where ferries arrive from the European side to the Asian side of Istanbul, September 30, 2004. As the deadline approaches for whether Turkey might be considered as one of the countries able to enter the European Union, all eyes are upon them as the first Muslim democracy that might gain entrance to the EU.