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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]
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] Blog: Last 2 days of the Mid East Adventure
Date: April 14th 2011
After the busy day of site seeing the day before I decided to skip the carpet museum and take some time to sleep in and recover during some of our last down time of the tour. After a nice slow morning Stacey, Tash, Fred, Ian,Claire and I went off on our own to see the open air museum. The open air museum was basically a collection of about 30 old churches that were dug into the rock face, they var ... read more
Date: April 14th 2011
After the busy day of site seeing the day before I decided to skip the carpet museum and take some time to sleep in and recover during some of our last down time of the tour. After a nice slow morning Stacey, Tash, Fred, Ian,Claire and I went off on our own to see the open air museum. The open air museum was basically a collection of about 30 old churches that were dug into the rock face, they var ... read more
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