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Background: Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the People's Congress of Kurdistan or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives, but after the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey, mainly to northern Iraq. In 2004, KGK announced an end to its ceasefire and attacks attributed to the KGK increased. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy, enabling it to begin accession membership talks with the European Union.



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Areas in Aegean: Afyonkarahisar | Aphrodisias | Ayvalik | Bergama | Bodrum | Cesme | Dalyan | Didyma | Fethiye | Foça | Izmir | Koycegiz | Kusadasi | Kutahya | Marmaris | Pamukkale | Selçuk

Ephesus was amazıng
2 days ago: ErinWhipp published a blog
Ephesus was amazıng
May 11th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Selçuk
So I survıved the overnıght bus. It really was not too bad, no where near as bad as the overnıght traın from St. Petersburg. I was ın such a deep sleep that the attendant had ... 6 photos [full story]

Een groet vanuit Bodrum
2 days ago: ten Kate Family published a blog
Een groet vanuit Bodrum
May 10th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Bodrum
Daar zijn we weer! Leuk om jullie reacties te lezen! Het Autootje heeft ons vrijdag zonder enig probleem naar Bodrum gebracht. We leken inderdaad wel een echte Turkse familie. Want we hadden de a ... 4 photos [full story]

6 days ago: Traf Burts published a blog
Ephesus etc
May 6th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Kusadasi
Day 7 Kusadasi, Turkey After sailing overnight through various Greek islands in the Agean Sea we berthed early morning in the Turkish port of Kusadasi. This port is close to Ephesus, the Agean&r ... [full story]

Ephesus and Selcuk
7 days ago: Emmad published a blog
Ephesus and Selcuk
April 23rd 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Selçuk
Hey, guess what, I went to visit some roman ruins! My apologies for the sarcastic tone, but after a cold shower on a cold morning, a long drive to Ephesus and another roman site, this wasn't my m ... 9 photos [full story]

Fethiye
7 days ago: Emmad published a blog
Fethiye
April 22nd 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Fethiye
Yet another beautiful place in Turkey! They just keep coming... On the way along the Mediterranean coast, we stopped for lunch at Kas, my first real Med seaside town. It had all the stereotypical ... 13 photos [full story]

14 days ago: whelans published a blog
Mykonos and Turkey
April 29th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Kusadasi
Hello from Liam in Turkey. Yesterday we went to Mykonos Greece. We went on the island and toured around at about noon. The small roads in Mykonos were so confusing. My mom said they were made to ... [full story]

TURKEY AND GREECE
15 days ago: Kevin and Susan published a blog
TURKEY AND GREECE
April 27th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Kusadasi
We love traveling in Turkey. Since it is not yet part of the European Union, it is still a relatively inexpensive tourist destination and it is a place jam packed with ancient ruins, beautiful beache ... 12 photos [full story]

Arried in Turkey
19 days ago: Landimages published a blog
Arried in Turkey
April 14th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Cesme
After breakfast we walked back over to the port, purchase our insurance, picked up the car and hit the road. After a full day of driving we arrived in Bodrum, a very nice coastal town. There were many ... 3 photos [full story]

Driving to the Fethiye, Turkey
19 days ago: Landimages published a blog
Driving to the Fethiye, Turkey
April 15th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Fethiye
After breakfast and a walk around town we hit the road. We reached Fethiye, Turkey around 5pm. This was a surprisingly great little town. At first sight we thought there was nothing there and nearly g ... 1 photos [full story]

20 days ago: bejomi published a blog
turkey quıckıe
April 22nd 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Kusadasi
been on tour for a bıt now. hıs keyboard ıs really strange. letters all over the place lol. umm trıp ıs goıng really well place ıs really pretty and the tour grou ... [full story]


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Looking Across The Hierapolis Necropolis From The Travertines
The Soccer Stars (and their tubby American pal)
Cappadocıa
Cappadocıa
Cappadocıa
The Latrine
Fethıye
RECOVERED
Afyon Castle (2)
Hiking
Temple to Hadrian
Gocek 12 Islands
The family at Anzac Cove
just a stretch.
Our stop for the second night
Kas Town

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