Mt Nemrut

EASTERN TURKEY

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August 8th 2011
And we thought that Greece was hot! At first we were tricked upon arrival into Kayseri, the temperature was relatively mild! We actually thought to ourselves for a minute, that we could handle this temperature, but we would soon be corrected! It was all quite surreal, upon arrival in Eastern Turkey we were picked by a guy at the airport wıth our names but spoke no english. We were then drive ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Cappadocia

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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