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I love to ride my bicycle, bicycle (the real chapter the first)

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December 4th 2006
Now begins the second part of this little tale. It starts where many great journies of the world have started, in Istanbul, Turkey. This was my fourth or fith visit to Istanbul in the last couple of months. But this time it was a little different. Why i hear you ask my dear reader. Well, it marked the start of a bike ride from Turkey through the Middle East and Central Asia and onto Russi ... 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