23rd April. Said bye to Rachel and joined my ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) Tour. On the way out of Istanbul I saw dolphins again in the Bosphorus while the tour leader gave us some interesting facts like 3% of Turkey is European, leaving 97% Asian, The population is 70million and 14million live in Istanbul (Holland population!), and There are 35,000 historical sites in the country. For those of you who are not Aussie or Kiwi and don’t know anything about ANZAC day or Gallipoli here is some background: "Anzac day is held in both Australia and New Zealand on the anniversary of the first major offensive to use ANZAC troops on the shores of Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915. When World War I began nine months earlier, 4th August 1914, Australia committed 20,000
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