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Blown Away By Turkey

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August 10th 2006
We bid farewell to the luxurious land of Dubai, put on our Easter dresses, and set forth for Turkey. Well in my imagination we put on our Easter dresses, but the fact of the matter is that they would just get extremely wrinkled in our small travel backpacks! Needless to say, we made it to Istanbul! Wow, either we had no expectations of Istanbul, or Istanbul is just a PHENOMENAL city...I am leanin ... 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