Wooden Horse of Troy

Gallipoli and Troy

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April 20th 2015
I arrived in Istanbul on Sunday night and got to the hotel in the central Istanbul using the subway system. In the morning I departed for my battlefield tour of Gallipoli and Tory. The recognise site of Troy consisting of nine different cities build at different in the same location. While the stone walls and buildings are present you do need a lot of imagination to see the different cities but it ... 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