The main drag

Ephesus

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May 9th 2005
I had been really looking forward to Turkey. Every traveller we had come across had waxed lyrical about how wonderful turkey was, how friendly everyone was, how the Turkish men would give you lots of camels in exchange for your wife.. sounded blissful really!! The flip side was the fact that the day before we entered Turkey, the Australian government upgraded the warnings - "avoid unnecessary tra ... 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