Turkish Airways Lounge

Layover in Istanbul Airport

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December 26th 2011
Greetings from Istanbul Airport! Today we left Lodz at 8:30AM, local time. Before leaving we had a wonderful Christmas Day breakfast with Family. It included a lot of Polish fresh ham, traditional vegetable salad, pickles, herrings and other Polish foods. As tradition goes, ‘the fish must swim’ so we had a few shots of Krupnik, special honey vodka made in Poland. It took us a bit more than 2 ... 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