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October 12th 2005
Wow, now this is a city unlike any other we have seen so far. We arrived on Saturday night, got checked into the hotel and headed out to explore the city. We were on sensory overload due to the lights, traffic, noise and number of people on the street. We had a travel guide with the street names listed in it, but knew when we asked the first local where the street signs were on the buildings an ... 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