Mt. Nemrut

one of the heads is of the king that build the site Antiochus I Epiphanos we mistakenly thought he was the same Antiochus Epiphanos from Hanukkah so Yaron and Liya crossed the ropes especially to do נא באוזן to him and show him that עם ישראל חי and to לתקן את ההיסטוריקל עוול . (actually he is only a very distant relative of the Syrian Hellenistic king)

Old, Older, Ancient

September 10th 2008
"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." - Rudyard Kipling 1st of Elul arrived (September 1st in the Turkish calendar ) and with it also the 1st of Ramadan and the Moslem world entered a different phase, the holy month of Ramazan (Ramadan in Turkish ) The Muslims are expected to follow the 5 ‘pillars’ of Islam, one of them is keeping th ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Southeastern Anatolia

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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