The Blue Mosque, the Basilica Cistern, the Hippodrome, the Grand Bazaar, the Sulemaniye Mosque and the Spice Bazaar
September 27th 2010 The Blue Mosque, the Basilica Cistern, the Hippodrome, the Grand Bazaar, the Sulemaniye Mosque and the Spice Bazaar
This city is absolutely teeming. It's impossible to walk more than a few metres without bumping into somebody, or rather the other way round. It goes on well into the small hours. Monk gave up at 1:30 am last night but still the streets were full of people, tourists an
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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 
