Menard -- Gypsy Girl mosaic

Turkey's Magical Highways Day 20

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October 28th 2014
We traveled to Gazientep today with several stops on the way. To get here, we traveled along a highway which was just within the border from Syria. We passed right by the village of Suruc and our driver told us that yesterday there were 2 mortars that strayed from Kobani (within a mile of Suruc) and did some major damage. He saw it on the news. I wonder if the fighter jets we heard the night befor ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

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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