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Mt. Nemrut  
   

Mt. Nemrut

we drove 8 hr to see this fascinating statues from ~80BC. The 2-3m heads were once on top of the huge chairs in the background. The hill behind was man-made so that the mountain have a “classic top”
Old, Older, Ancient

September 10th 2008
"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." - Rudyard Kipling 1st of Elul arrived (September 1st in the Turkish calendar ) and with it also the 1st of Ramadan and the Moslem world entered a different phase, the holy month of Ramazan (Ramadan in Turkish ) The Muslims are expected to follow the 5 ‘pillars’ of Islam, one of them is keeping th ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia

Turkish Flag 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
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