In article et, rw
wrote:

I'm willing to cut the guy some slack. He probably got back from his
trip (which was evidently routed through Istanbul, Turkey), uploaded his
photos, and searched for one that supported his preconceived,
ideological case.

I find it hard to go along with this. I've travelled all over Turkey,
and bits of Syria, Iran, Iraq. As soon as you get to the border from
Turkey, you notice the change from the familiar alphabet which you can
often work out, to the arabic (the arabic script is used in Iran, too,
although the language is Indo-European) which, if you're me, you can't.

I don't believe anyone who had been both to istanbul and Baghdad, even
just for a day in each, could make this mistake.

Lazarus