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Police station Cappadocian style  
   

Police station Cappadocian style

Avanos and Urgup

October 13th 2012
13 0ctober 2012 We visited two of the nearby towns today. Avanos is on the Kizilimak (Red River) from which it extracts the clay to make the pottery for which it is well known. We visited several of the pottery shops many of which were in caves and had demonstrations of pieces being thrown and decorated. Urgup is set in a valley with honeycombed cliffs all about it. We walked ar ... read more
Middle East » Turkey

Turkish Flag 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
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