My shady refuge

Pamukkale and Hieropolis

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September 6th 2011
One night in 2009, on Denman Island in Canada, a woman who had just returned from Turkey gave a free slide show about her trip, and our friend Doreen took us along. “Island people make their own entertainment”, she said. We found the evening an inspiration to go to Turkey ourselves. Such seemingly minor events change lives, and the catalyzer often doesn’t know the impact of what s/he has d ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Aegean

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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