Crossing into Turkey

Turkish and Syrian Border Then to Goreme

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November 15th 2009
Turkish Syrian border crossing and Goreme. The drive from Aleppo in Syria to Goreme in Turkey took the best part of 14 hours. Quite a few of those hours were taken up at the border crossing. Getting into Turkey was relatively easy but getting out of Syria was unnecessarily time consuming. I think in all there were 8 passport inspections to make sure that we had paid for and received our exit stam ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia » Göreme

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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