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In 2015 I waited, patiently, aboard a small boat on the Bosphorus Strait, willing the engine to carry me towards the only metropolis on earth where a country straddles two continental landmasses. The Bosphorus is the thin strip of water that bisects Istanbul, and where Europe and Asia come together – or part.