Trkiye's tourism city on tenterhooks as fallout from U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran spreads

by Burak Akinci ANKARA, March 7 (Xinhua) -- In early spring, the streets of Van, a border city in eastern Trkiye, usually buzz with Persian accents. Iranian families stroll past shop windows, couples linger in lakeside cafes, and tour boats drift across the sparkling waters of Lake Van, the country's largest lake and the Middle East's second-largest.