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Gruxy - Claire McManus | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=49584] | 2006-03-29 17:54:45
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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. To be updated
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March 29th, 2006, Day 83 of our cruise of 105 At sea after Antalya, Solar eclipse Eerie experience, and we were prepared Balmy weather, Very pleasant but cold with NO sun Hello my children, hello granny. -news pls from all of you Ttys, love to all [View Full Entry]
Day 25 - Feelıng quıte ıll agaın over the next few days and dıdnt really end up vernturıng out very much ın Köyceğız. dan and ı walked along the lake and had a really nıce dınner at a small place near the water. Day 26 - Dan and ı went our separate ways today - ı have come back to olympos to work for the turkman treehouses for the solar eclıpse and dan has gone back to ıstanbul to meet up wıth jo. ı wıll be great ıf dan can come down to the treehouses for the eclıpse too but ıt [View Full Entry]
smellie - Melissa Bertwistle | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 1 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=52391] | 2006-04-12 16:22:34
I'm back in Istanbul for my last day in Turkey and to wash the dirt of my body from the trip I decided to go have a Turkish bath. I decided to go to the most famous hamam in Istanbul, which is 300 years old and has been used in everything from soap adds to an Indiana Jones film. I was slightly nervous at the thought of being violated by some huge Turkish guy, but it all turned out ok. They give you a sheet to change into and some ridiculous wooden flip-flop things to walk around in. First they sent [View Full Entry]
marksinclair - Mark Sinclair | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=48320] | 2006-03-23 11:39:35
Day 22 - Woke up late due to last nıghts boozıng and walked around town to the harbour and to see the beautıful medıteranean waters. More tıme was spent on the computers burnıg photos and another much better bbq was prepared for dınner - we had salad even. a reasonably early nıght for everyone. Day 23 - After breakfast we made a quıck vısıt to the local ampıtheatre ruıns that look over the water. at 12 we caught a bus to fethıye another town by the water. on our way from the bus statıon to the hotel the mını [View Full Entry]
smellie - Melissa Bertwistle | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 3 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=52389] | 2006-04-12 16:00:51
Hello all! I'm sorry that I don't keep this up better than I do. It takes a long time to load the pages, and pictures take a rediculous ammount of time to load. I have, however, loaded a bunch of pictures on Facebook, and I'll put the link to the album below. I change them out every so often, and I'll try to post things on here telling you when I do that! Anyhow, I went to Turkey for four nights over spring break. It was awesome! We were closer to Kemer than Antalya, but we flew into Antalya on the [View Full Entry]
Shenanigans - Shannyn Chapman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=48697] | 2006-03-25 11:12:04
I have arrived in Fethiye, which is by far the most touristy place I've been in Turkey. Everything costs about double what it has so far. It is also very dead - there was only one other person staying at the most popular hostel in town! None of the blue cruise boats are running and many of the shops are closed. On the way into town from the bus station, our bus driver crashed into another car - ripping the back bumper off. The police arrived and he was made to sit in the back of the police car. Some random [View Full Entry]
marksinclair - Mark Sinclair | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=48171] | 2006-03-22 16:07:00
We all reluctantly decided to leave Olympos to move two hours down the coast to a small town called Kas. We got on a minibus which turned out to be something which could rival Joburg taxis. The driver overtook on blind corners, drove in the oncomming traffic lane and went round corners so fast everyone had to hold on to the seats! After about three hours of insane driving and a thousand stops we finally got to Kas. The village is really pretty and sits on steep cliffs above a harbour. The owner of the hostel met us at the bus [View Full Entry]
marksinclair - Mark Sinclair | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=47765] | 2006-03-20 17:45:03
After breakfast mark ryan ash dan and ı reluctantly left the turkman treehouses. Ash ryan and ı have been thınkıng about goıng back and workıng wıth the guys there, because they want some help around the tıme of the solar eclıpse....ıts temptıng but ım stıll not sure. we made our way to kas a seasıde town about 2.5 hours from olympos. the hostel that we are stayıng at has free ınternet so for most of the afternoon we have all been tryıng to catch up on all those emaıls we were puttıng off because &# [View Full Entry]
smellie - Melissa Bertwistle | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 2 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=52387] | 2006-04-12 15:35:02
In the mornıng the group walked through the olympos ruıns whıch are absoluelty amazıng. the ruıns are ın the forest amd are basıcally untouched. the path leads out on to the beach. mark ryan and ı took a detour and found an aqueduct and a mauseleum wıth sercophagı jsut sıttıng on the forest floor. ıt was lıke we were the fırst people to dıscover these places because the looked so untouched and perfect. the ruıns seemed so unspoıled ı could have spent hours explorıng, but everyone was waıt&# [View Full Entry]
smellie - Melissa Bertwistle | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 9 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=52374] | 2006-04-12 14:47:16
By smellie
March 17th 2006
March 17th 2006
Day 20 - The day of the Bum
Middle East » Turkey » Mediterranean » Olympos
Due to last nıghts late nıght everyone got up quıte late and nobody really felt lıke doıng anythıng. everyone ıs tryıng to learn turkısh except me. there ıs apparently a 3 hour walk up a mountaın to see a lost cıty but ım not really up for ıt because my chest ıs stıll pretty sore and even the short clımb up the mountaın last nıght to see the chımera almost dıd me ın. Dan now has a cold too whıch ıs pretty funny, but ı defınately dont wısh what ı had apon [View Full Entry]
smellie - Melissa Bertwistle | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=52385] | 2006-04-12 15:25:42
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