At the shrine

Dervish Shrine

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August 5th 2008
This is the Shrine to the founder of the Whirling Dervishes, in Konya. There are no actual dervishes there, but we did see all sorts of Qorans, and several tombs, and Jershon decided that the Dervish "cells" were bigger than his room. However, before that we spent quite a long time people-watching, because it turned out that on Mondays, the Shrine was free to local people, and it was thronged ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

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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