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What I saw in Budapest and Vienna was not just two European cities; it was how the relationship between a city and its people can be built. Civilisation is measured not by the height of its skyscrapers but by the depth of the values it manages to preserve.
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Oktay Yılmaz
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A graduate of Al-Azhar University and Marmara University's Institute of Middle East Studies, with more than thirty years in national and international media as a political analyst and news commentator.