Giant frog attacks istanbul! - hitchhiker escapes through Persia and beyond...
January 27th 2008 From Taksim Square we walked about halfway down istiklal Caddesi, took a left, walked down a dimly-lit hallway and then up an antique stairway rounded down by the centuries. The restaurant we entered was obviously a fine rooftop terrace in the summer, but it had been sealed up against the wintry cold. It was not a clear afternoon, and what must have been a dramatic view of the Bosphorus was bare
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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 
