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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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Snow and Russian babes, Christmas came early this year
June 7th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Pamukkale
Pamukkale is a three-hour drive from Selcuk, the majority of which I sleep right through. I’m not actually sure if the little town with nothing to do at the bottom of the mountains is Pamakkule, ... 18 photos [full story]

TURKEY- Gallipoli (re-visited), Troy, Ephisus and Pamukkale
May 27th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Pamukkale
The next stage of our trip was to head off to the middle east we had organised to do an overland trip from Istanbul to Cairo. This trip would take us through Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Overl ... 7 photos [full story]

East meets West part bir
102 days ago: Lani published a blog
East meets West part bir
April 15th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Pamukkale
15 April 2008 I've been in Turkey for almost a month now. My daughter, Shay, lives in Izmir, so that has been where I have spent the majority of my time. Izmir is a fairly modern city, by Turkish ... 41 photos [full story]

Travertines, Tractors and Theatres.
142 days ago: NickiM published a blog
Travertines, Tractors and Theatres.
March 5th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Pamukkale
Hello!! First of all, I really want to thank everyone for all the messages and comments, they're really nice to get. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to read these blogs and provide me wi ... 123 photos [full story]

Ephesus & Pamukkale: Cityscapes & Landscapes
151 days ago: Hanz published a blog
Ephesus & Pamukkale: Cityscapes & Landscapes
April 27th 2007  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Pamukkale
Ephesus, described as the best-preserved classical city in the Eastern Mediterranean. I had high expectations, and I wasn’t disappointed. Ephesus was an ancient trading city, which feels lik ... 12 photos [full story]


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The Soccer Stars (and their tubby American pal)
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