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Gule Gule from Istanbul and Welcome to Erzurum - North Eastern Turkey

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September 10th 2011
Our original plans were to travel the Black Sea Coast to Trabzon and then go inland to Erzurum to start our Eastern Adventure. However even with 6 weeks in Turkey there still would not of been enough time to see all that we wanted so unfortunately something had to go and we sacrificed the Black Sea Coast We had made an internet booking for our flight with Onuair, one of Turkey's budget airli ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Eastern Anatolia » Erzurum

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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