Pastor Daniel Meeter was walking through Union Square when a reporter from NY Magazine asked if he'd be willing to be interviewed for a story called "The Getaway Plan: New Yorkers' Escape  Fantasies Made Real."

They took his picture, too. Here's what he said:

"I work 24/7. I am the president of all the Reformed churches in Brooklyn, and we are having a tough time. Religious organizations are under tremendous financial stress. A lot of our volunteer organizations, like child care, caring for the sick, caring for thee poor, caring for the homeless, are under stress. I could  use an escape from all that. I am drawn to Istanbul because it's both Mulism and Christian, European and Asian. I'd like to find a version of Islam that's progressive. The other thing is the architecture, the food. I love Turkish food."

Meeter thinks he actually said: " I like the progressive version of Islam in Turkey."

Picture from Brooklyn Paper. Daniel Meeter (left) with Rabbi Andy Bachman (right).