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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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Türkiye - Çanakkale
16 days ago: The Journey published a blog
Türkiye - Çanakkale
October 30th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
After leaving the hustle and bustle of Istanbul, we were off to Canakkale to see the legendary city of Troy, or at least what remains of it. Six hours on the bus and half an hour on the ferry an ... 17 photos [full story]

Çanakkale, Eceabat, Kilitbahir and Troy
86 days ago: rrruss published a blog
Çanakkale, Eceabat, Kilitbahir and Troy
September 4th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
Getting out to the Gallipoli peninsula turned out to be more troublesome than anticipated. Having bought tickets on a Metro bus, one of the biggest companies in Turkey, we thought it was going to ... 27 photos [full story]

101 days ago: Tias published a blog
Canakkale - Gallipoli Finally
July 26th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
So the time has come to head down the Turkish coast to see the one place o/s that all patriotic Aussies should visit, Gallipoli. After a sleep in I took the public transport to the main bus station in ... [full story]

Mosque and bikini
119 days ago: Petrova published a blog
Mosque and bikini
August 5th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
Canakkale offers at once Muslim culture and all that you want from a perfect holiday spot, by the sea. I would have loved to stay longer. ... 2 photos [full story]

Across the border ınto Asia
173 days ago: Omentide published a blog
Across the border ınto Asia
June 11th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
It has been an eventful day. Firstly, on leaving Alexandropolis, someone had obviously checked out the saddlebags. Nothing was taken because there was nothing in them. It happened on the past trip ... 4 photos [full story]

178 days ago: pokadoke published a blog
Gallipoli and final day in Canakkale
June 7th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
Nessie and I took quite the extended tour of Gallipoli today. I thınk I have now officially seen every gravestone of every dead identified soldier during the "Gentlemens War". I was elated that w ... [full story]

180 days ago: pokadoke published a blog
Canakkale
June 5th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale
We took the bus from Selçuk to Canakkale today. Sımılar to prevıous bus rıdes, 300 kılometers took 6 hours. I ordered what I thought was aubergıne and mushrooms at a ... [full story]


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