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The air shifted as we left Izmir City behind. We were off on a trip to the small towns of Izmir Province, Türkiye's Agean coastline unfurling outside the window of our bus. It was October, and the second day of our media familiarization tour, and during a gas station stopover, the cold morning breeze blew me wide awake, leaving behind the taste of anticipation for the adventure ahead.
It was a slow, hazy day. As our bus chugged on the expressway, I watched as the world slipped by in flashes of olive groves, vineyards, and greenhouses. Horses galloped across wide fields.
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