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Istanbul (possibly Constantinople)

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January 13th 2012
For starters, yup, I'm safe, and mostly settled into my new home on the outskirts of Brussels, in Belgium. It's nice, but I'm fairly certain that once a new semester starts, it's probably for the best if all wacky hijinks from the last have been recorded; or at least the legal fees connected to said hijinks have been paid. With that in mind, and mostly because my brain is like cora ... 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