Istanbul Turkish Delight - Grand Bazaar, Spice Bazaar, Hagia Sofia and Blue Mosque
June 15th 2013 We arrived into the city via the metro/light rail. Public transport is unbelievably easy here. The language however is not. It
took a while to get our bearings on the city but once we did (relatively), we were so proud of ourselves. The city is slightly
hilly going down towards the water, which is everywhere: The Bosphorous straight on one side and the Marmara Sea on the
other. Our first
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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 
