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Istanbul

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May 7th 2009
From Greece there was another overnight train to Istanbul, Turkey. The first sign that I wasn’t in a more mainland European city was that there was no sign of graffiti tags. The second sign are the prayer chants blaring over the loud speakers 5 times a day from the many mosques. Istanbul is another city where you could spend weeks and hardly scrape the surface of the sights, the history ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul

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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