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vacation day

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October 13th 2010
“Shhh, quite we all can hear you,” a fellow traveler says as she sticks her head out the door. It is 6 am and I’m on Skype. Me being quite is like expecting peace in the middle east. Our pension is small, and the walls are paper thin. I heard everything last night from a fight at 2 pm across the street, to the cats fight to the people snoring down the hall. And oh, let’s not forget about ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Mediterranean » Antalya

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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