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Gallipoli

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June 11th 2010
Gallipoli is a compulsory stop for any New Zealander or Australian visiting Turkey and we wanted to see it ourselves, take Phoebe, learn more and pay our respects. We stayed in the nearby town of Çanakkale and caught the ferry across the Bosphorus to the European side of Turkey. This was one place where we wanted a tour guide to do the memorials justice. When we joined the tour group we thought ... 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