Blue Mosque

Men, men and more men

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May 16th 2010
Istanbul came be a relatively tame introduction to Turkish men, who later become a defining feature of my trip. However, I was grateful I’d decided on Turkey over my original plan of going to Morocco after some of the tales I’d heard from western women who’d ‘escaped’ the country, for lack of a better phrase. One of the first men I’d met in Istanbul proclaimed that his shop would “ ... 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