Beylerbeyi Palace

Istanbul Day 4 and Return Home

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May 19th 2013
Saturday May 18, 2013 and Sunday May 19, 1013. Istanbul Day 4 and Return Home. We awoke in our "new" hotel and were directed across to the Kral Mert Hotel for breakfast. We had to check out of the hotel again and leave our stuff in the lobby of the Kral Mert as we did yesterday, although the guy seemed pretty confident that we would be staying at the hotel we had originally booked for our final ... 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