European Istanbul

One evening I took the ferry boat across Bosphorus to the asian side of Istanbul. This is the view back to the european side. The left part is Sultanahmet (the old part of Istanbul), on the right is Galata tower (the place where the first intercontinetal flight attempt started - Europe to Asia - but the guy failed. In the foreground you see one of the many big ships passing the Bosphorus.

Life in Turkey

August 20th 2005
I've been in Istanbul for some days now. Today I have somewhat more time to write about what I'm doing, and what's going on. There have been complaints already that I only write short entries to this diary ;-) It's sometimes not so easy to have enough time, to find a good place, and to know what to write. If some strange ı instead of the usual i appears, sorry, it's because of the turkish keyboa ... 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

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