Gallipoli - Thursday

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September 13th 2012
There's something serene about 6:30am in the morning although it loses some of its beauty when you remember that you are up and dressed at that hour because you going on a 15 hour bus trip and not getting back until after midnight. All my life I thought that Gallipoli was just down the coast from Istanbul so it came as a bit of a shock to find myself 4 hrs later 3km from the Greek border wh ... 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