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Conflicting Kurdistan
April 2nd 2007 Yes, I know: there is no officially recognized country by the name of "Kurdistan" - but hey: travel to South-Eastern Anatolia and talk to some locals! So, here's my personal Kurdistan Experience: From the West, the part of Turkey with high kurdish population roughly start east of the Malatya - Adana Highway going all the way up to Erzurum until the Turkish/Georgian border. Having travelled fr
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom