Enjoying our skate

Happy New Year!

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January 1st 2013
2013 is here, and I greatly enjoyed bringing it in with friends here in Istanbul. For New Year's Eve, Jeremy, Kylie, Jon and I visited with some other friends for the evening. We played games and then listened to the fireworks at midnight (we looked for them, too, but couldn't see anything from where we were!). This morning... or, rather, early afternoon... I headed to the store at noon to ... 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