The Galata Tower and Beyoglu

Eating & Sightseeing in Istanbul

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February 11th 2008
December 17 - 23, 2006 Sunday Our bus up the Dardanelles arrived in Istanbul at 8pm. After some confusion we loaded on to a servis van encountering the rare rude face the servis apparently brings out (two guys in the front seat took up three seats, the back seat someone always seems to sit down at the end and doesn’t move over so you have to crawl over them…). A local guy on the bus told u ... 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