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Southeastern Anatolia

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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Areas in : Diyarbakir (6) | Gaziantep (7) | Mardin (5) | Mount Nemrut (6) | Urfa (10)

4 days ago: Boyter published a blog
Our trip to eastern Turkey
November 5th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia » Gaziantep
Due to the fact that it was Republic Day, the Ministry of Education decided to close all schools on Thursday and Friday! Unfortunately, they didn't decide that until Wednesday. With a last minute 4 d ... [full story]

September 17th 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia » Urfa
Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu SanliUrfa seyahatinden Gunluklerinde bir kac kesit Eser Sahibi (H.ÇİĞDEM YORGANCIOĞLU) Bu gezi yazısına dair 5846 sayılı Fikir ... [full story]

91 days ago: TommyB published a blog
South East Turkey
December 8th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia » Diyarbakir
I decided to take the trip to South East Turkey during the Bayram holiday that precludes the end of Ramazan in the Muslim calendar, and was to be held from the 14th december to the 18th in 2008. ... [full story]

Turkey
171 days ago: turkishraf published a blog
Turkey's end.. Van to Hasan Keyf
May 22nd 2009  Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia
My first memories of Van were being there in 1992 when the PKK campaign was reaching its high point. The government had lost control of large sections of the country and all travel at night was banned ... 12 photos [full story]


Southeastern Anatolia Blog Entries

Sandra and I finding prime position for sunset
Urfa - Baliki Gol at night
Urfa - Mavlid-I Halil Camii
Urfa Market
Cappadocia
Nazar boncugu
Particolare1
Il palazzo di Ishak Pasha
La dura strada per Dogubayazit
Harran: scena di vita quotidiana
Urfa: la vasca di Abramo
Urfa
SanliUrfa...
Diyarbakir
Isfahan
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