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Spice Market

Day 19 - Istanbul To Piraeus

May 22nd 2014
Our flight to Athens leaves at 4.00pm so we have a half day to kill and we slept really late, the staff at the hotel and just great and allowed us to check out whenever we wanted, so we walked to the spice market to get some Turkish Delight to bring home and went inside the new mosque while we were there. We returned to the hotel and sat around drinking coffee and cruising for an hour or so before ... read more
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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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