Lone Pine - Gallipoli

Was the scene of much fighting between Australian and Turkish forces and it is now an Australian war memorial and cemetary.

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2007-06-26 Turkey

June 26th 2007
We have made it to turkey and have spent the last 5 days here. The flight from Helsinki to London went well, the night spent at Luton airport while waiting to check in at 4am was pretty painful. Even worse was the end of the flight when we arrived in Istanbul, a little boy on the plane appeared to develop chicken pox marks during the flight over. There was a mini quarantine scare as we all had to ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Selçuk

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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