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Istanbul Day 3 -- Our favorite places

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August 13th 2008
We got up today feeling like old hands at the transportation thing and headed (almost) straight for the ferry to Princes' Islands, arriving 30 minutes in advance to get good seats on the outside, which had a nice breeze. The ferry trip was about an hour and a half, but biking through pine forests on an island with no cars sounded so alluring... Hmm. By now we should have been skeptical of the ... read more

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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