Most of the countries are lovely when you are a tourist. Sadly being local under a suppressed government, without solid democracy, justice and freedom of speech, with high taxes and very little services, corruption to the bone, destroyed education, political religion, shitty health care, no woman rights, or any equality at all, is not that lovely.

You are in a thin line in Turkey, your life can change dramatically in a blink of an eye, and where you find yourself in really dangerous positions for very basic reasons.