Scale The Walls

Mustafa Kemal

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October 29th 2007
Despite having to force ourselves out of bed due to the lack of any light to wake us naturally we managed to get up, pack and check out fairly early. We had to rush to the station otherwise the next bus would have been an hour later. We grabbed a typical Turkish snack of pretzels to eat on the way. We arrived at Troy and to our surprise it was 10ytl for adults but completely free for students o ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Izmir

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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 adopt... ... read more