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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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4 days ago: deejayvee published a blog
I'm on my way
May 11th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
Well, what a few days! On Friday, I left my hotel in Athens in the morning to go to the airport. When I arrived, I couldn’t see my flight to Samos on the departures board, and sure enough, th ... 17 photos [full story]

6 days ago: ErinWhipp published a blog
On the doorstep of Troy
May 9th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
I got up this morning and checked out Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the one site that I wasnt able to get to in the previous days. It was the Sutan's castle and was built around the 13th century, and wa ... [full story]

April 25th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
April 25, 2008, marks the 93rd anniversary of the Allied landing at Gallipoli, Turkey, in World War I, 1915, and the beginning of the Gallipolis Campaign. It also marks the anniversary of the first ma ... 26 photos [full story]

26 days ago: Barney and Liz do Europe published a blog
The Dardanelles
April 19th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
We wake before dawn and are on the road as the sun rıses. It hovers ın my drıvers sıde mırror - ın the east. Thıs ıs one of the few tımes ıf ever  ... [full story]

Gallipoli, Troy, and Lounging in Cannakale
January 22nd 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
December 15 - 17, 2006 Friday We pulled into Cannakale after dark and with not much of a clue as to where we would be staying for the night. The bus from Selcuk dropped us at Cumhuriyet Meydani ... 17 photos [full story]

Re-enacting Gallipoli
190 days ago: Steph and Rob published a blog
Re-enacting Gallipoli
October 28th 2007  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
Our room at Anzac house hostel has no windows and therefore no daylight to wake us up naturally. We slept till around eleven when I got restless and checked the time. A room with no windows is a dange ... 7 photos [full story]


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