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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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Turkish and Syrian Border Then to Goreme
November 15th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme
Turkish Syrian border crossing and Goreme. The drive from Aleppo in Syria to Goreme in Turkey took the best part of 14 hours. Quite a few of those hours were taken up at the border crossing. Getting ... 14 photos [full story]

18 days ago: pn76 published a blog
Early Cappaddoccıan Chrıstmas!
November 2nd 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme
I woke today today to lıght raın and then got snowed on very heavıly durıng my mornıng walk! The day proceeded to dump the fırst season of snow for Cappadoccıa and ... [full story]

Crazy Cappadoccıa
19 days ago: pn76 published a blog
Crazy Cappadoccıa
November 1st 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia
Arrıvıng ın Capadoccıa by plane saved a long 12 bus from Antalya and I was hapy to be basıng myself for 4 nıghts and teh chance to unload! Nearly got excess baggage charg ... 5 photos [full story]

Hiking in the wonderland
26 days ago: Tomek published a blog
Hiking in the wonderland
October 20th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme
The second day in Göreme I went out for some 17 km hike with two women from Canada and California. Directly north of the town there is a rock massif consisting of several small and compact valleys ... 9 photos [full story]

31 days ago: Caroline and Scott published a blog
Back into Turkey
October 20th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme
G'day all, Well we left Lada heaven (Yeravan - every white lada in the world ends up in Yerevan!) we headed to a greek temple that had been restored but was very nice and a monestry complex carved ... [full story]

Lots of phalic symbols ın Cappadocıa!!!
October 6th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia
I decided to fly from Istanbul to Cappadocia to save myself the 13hour overnight bus ride. For an extra 50 aussie dollars it was a 2 hour plane ride from Istanbul to Cappadocia. I guess if i was explo ... 20 photos [full story]

59 days ago: Caroline and Scott published a blog
Turkey and crazy drivers
September 22nd 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara
Hello all. Before I forget again I have to tell you about an incident that happened in Romania - pouring rain and bad roads = big puddles. Scott was driving along having fun splashing water about ... [full story]

Cappadocia, the desert of the surreal
August 5th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade win ... 69 photos [full story]

More from Konya and the site
84 days ago: Byrnesy published a blog
More from Konya and the site
August 21st 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Konya
Not too much has transpired between this Friday and last besides work. I did want to post some more pictures from the site and from last Friday's carpet shopping. A exciting thing for me (but maybe no ... 12 photos [full story]

Whirling dervishes
98 days ago: Byrnesy published a blog
Whirling dervishes
August 14th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Konya
On Sunday night we got another nice evening of turkish culture with a performance of the whirling dervishes on our terrace. The whirling dervishes are actually the mevlevi order, and this religious or ... 5 photos [full story]


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Mevlana's Museum in Konya
Balloon Ride
Cappadocia
Contrast
Amazing landscape
Blackend sky
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Wall at Anıtkabir
Dark Church
The Road goes ever on and on
Sultanahmet Cami (Blue Mosque)
The Mevlana Museum and Tomb
Cappadocia: A mio rischio e pericolo
Goreme: Camera in una grotta
Vite in Cappadocia
On the ledge - about 4 stories up!!

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