Your first entry into a public bathroom in Turkey can be disconcerting. If you have a pressing need and go looking for a toilet upon which to sit, you might look in vain through two dozen stalls. In each enclosure there is a porcelain-surrounded hole in the floor. On each side there are thick porcelain corrugations, presumably to keep you from sliding, losing your balance and falling while doing your business. Often you have paid thirty-five or forty American cents for a few sheets of toilet paper in order to gain admittance. Should a serious problem develop---and you have no additional paper in your purse or backpack---your only recourse will be to dig in a basket of used paper located against the back wall. There is usually a two gallon plastic bucket full of water near the entrance to the stall, and another smaller pitcher of water just adjacent to your porcelain hole. Having no one to guide me, I never figured out the purpose of these objects, since there is also a tank up high on the wall with a chain for flushing as in a Western-style toilet. All of this though disorienting can be processed without too much of a jolt: the bathrooms seem to be operated as concessions and the proprietors keep them immaculately clean. However, while waiting several hours at the airport for a delayed flight to leave, I entered a bathroom and found an unusual sign. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, washed my hands, then noticed it had the outline of a footprint with the red circle-and-slash which universally communicates: Don't Do It. I briefly experienced what the psychiatrists call "a feeling of unreality," then a concrete sense that I could not be in Kentucky or Kansas or really in any place I had ever been before. It appears there have been problems with Muslim folks using the bathroom sinks to wash their feet, so much so that special bilingual signs prohibiting this behavior have been produced. The proper place to wash your feet before prayer is several doors down at the masjid, a kind of religious substation with faucets near the floor, drains appropriately situated and carpets nearby to facilitate your worship.