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Lone Pine Cemetery

Why do you think it's called lone pine??
Gallipoli Penisula

June 7th 2012
Took the morning ferry to Gallipoli today, which is the penisula on the other side of the Dardanelles from where I'm staying. This was where one of the most important battles of WWI took place: where the Turks and Germans stopped the Allies from bringing down Turkey in 1915. It was a huge defeat for the Allies, who were led by a very young Winston Churchill. Think of it as the D-Day of WWI, bu ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Canakkale

Turkish Flag 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
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