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Turks don't click and tell on e-matchmaking

Turkey’s largest online dating site has 18 million registered profiles and 1 million people who have logged in over the last 12 months, but few will tell about their experiences.
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Hale, a physician in her 40s, met her husband, the financial director of an international company, on the internet. She’d die rather than admit it.

“I just tell people that I met him when he came in as a patient,” said Hale (not her real name), unaware that in many cultures dating a patient would raise more eyebrows than meeting through online dating sites.

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