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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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29 days ago: Noz published a blog
Gallipoli
October 8th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
Keşan looked hazy in the morning. The hotel breakfast was, I had been reliably informed, typically Turkish: olives, boiled eggs, fetta cheese, sliced tomatoes and cucumber, and grape juice. "Good ... [full story]

Gelibolu and Beyond
41 days ago: Doglover published a blog
Gelibolu and Beyond
September 24th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
The accommodations we found in Assos were pretty austere and uncomfortable so we decided that the next stop we would treat ourselves to a comfortable bed and hot shower. We were making our way back t ... 8 photos [full story]

Gallipoli - Lest We Forget
66 days ago: rrruss published a blog
Gallipoli - Lest We Forget
September 1st 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
There are 2 pages of photos again. Where there is a poem or a quotation, click on the photo. It should open in a new window and hopefully you can read the inscriptions. We came to the Gallipoli pen ... 29 photos [full story]

ANZAC Day at Gallipoli
103 days ago: Carly and Jez published a blog
ANZAC Day at Gallipoli
April 27th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
Day 378 After a half day work we got our flight from Birmingham to Istanbul on KLM arriving just after 1am. Our Fanatics pick up was there but didn't have our names on his list and spoke very little ... 23 photos [full story]

GALLIPOLI AND MORE
148 days ago: 2 BLONDES ON HOLIDAY published a blog
GALLIPOLI AND MORE
June 11th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
DAY 58 FREEDOM!! No more following orders, no more having to wait for others, no more hassles. We are on our own. We get up when we want and eat when we want! We eat breakfast with the last ... 18 photos [full story]

Anzac Day @ the Cove
162 days ago: AdamMoiler published a blog
Anzac Day @ the Cove
April 22nd 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
Ah its been awhile since my last post, but have been mighty busy. From Cesky Krumlov - spent a few hours on a bus, then more hours on a train to arrive back in budapest. On the way ran into Je ... 11 photos [full story]

192 days ago: shaynem published a blog
Turkey - Istanbul and Gallipoli
April 28th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
We arrived in Istanbul about 2 hours late after our flights were delayed gettin off the ground and leaving Zurich due to a connecting flight being late, we also had to circle for about 20 mins over Is ... [full story]

195 days ago: Whiskers published a blog
A Day at ANZAC Cove
April 25th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
The light in the sky increased as the dawn service came to an end although we awaited the sun with eagerness to try and get a feeling of warmth back into our bodies.The VIP's headed off including our ... [full story]

196 days ago: Whiskers published a blog
On the Road to ANZAC Cove
April 25th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
Dinner last night at the restaurant that been reccommnded was a bit dissapointing but I suppose everyone has different opinions on how good something is especially food.They were supposed to be the be ... [full story]

198 days ago: cabernet published a blog
Turkey
April 24th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Gallipoli
Hı everybody. Well now ın Canakkake and wıll soon be off to Gallıpolı but fırst. The coast of Turkey stunnıng, the little port of Ananya was lıke the Gree ... [full story]


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