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Yüzotuziki: 2005-08-21
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Thursday, August 25, 2005. Back on topic. The truth is, Turkey is 95% Muslim. But it is a secular country. Atatürk banned the headscarf in public places, much like he banned the fez. And introduced many other Western behaviors back in the late 1920s. I believe Stephen Kinzer's book, Crescent and Star. Discusses how it is illegal. And then, t...
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-08-28
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, September 03, 2005. Today was a much longer trip for the exchange students (it being a Saturday, the study abroad office decided to take all day). So, I will start from the beginning. We hopped back into the ODTU buses, and stopped at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Our crazy guide says it was originally an indoor bazaar...
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-09-04
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, September 10, 2005. Posted by iris @ 9:14 PM. A group of exchange students headed to the Black Sea yesterday, and another group headed to Trabzon. 2 days was not enough to see the coast, so I stayed in Ankara. Posted by iris @ 8:33 PM. Friday, September 09, 2005. Hold onto your hats, I have a story. (I've changed some names). The w...
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-09-18
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, September 24, 2005. Kapadokya - Gün 1. So, we woke up nice and early to catch a METU-organized bus tour to Kapadokya/Cappadocia. Anyways, after a 4 hour drive, we ended up at? Basically, a park with some hidden churches, relatively deserted by most tourists. Before descending the stairs downwards (note the caves to the left). Kayma...
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-07-31
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Wednesday, August 03, 2005. That's it, I've done it. I finally bought my plane ticket after much procrastination. Just think, $640 can send you to Turkey on August 28th with me. 9 hour flight 3.5 hour layover 1 hour flight = 13.5 hours. Posted by iris @ 12:36 AM. Monday, August 01, 2005. Some points of interest:. Posted by iris @ 12:33 AM.
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-09-11
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, September 17, 2005. Olimpos - Gün 2. This day was much bluer. The rest of the group decided to go exploring, and we ended up taking the path above to the mountain I had climbed the day before- but from a different direction. The pebbly beach where we spent our day. A tomb resting on the side of a mountain. Posted by iris @ 4:06 PM.
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-09-25
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, October 01, 2005. We saw Wedding Crashers. In the movie theatre on the top floor; it was in English with Turkish subtitles. Afterwards, we wandered around Armada in a complete daze. Watching an American movie put us mentally back in the United States. Posted by iris @ 8:03 PM. Friday, September 30, 2005. Posted by iris @ 12:40 PM.
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-10-09
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, October 15, 2005. Boğazkale - Gün 1. Well, it should. Have been a day trip. A view from our bus to Sungurlu. We showed up to Boğazkale at 3:30pm (3 hours later than expected), leaving us not nearly enough time to do the 12km walk that is Hattuşa and Yazılkaya. So, we checked into a pension. Where is your luggage? The view at lunch.
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Yüzotuziki: 2005-07-24
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All posts entitled City - Gün #. Tend to be full of photos from a weekend trip. The rest of the posts are useless paragraphs, full of my ramblings and random photos. Saturday, July 30, 2005. I went home today and retrieved my passport, signaling the end of the month-long battle with the Turkish Consulate in NYC:. Three days later. Negotiations were quick and rare- there was a one out of ten chance that someone would answer the phone, and that was only between 3 and 5pm. Posted by iris @ 11:00 PM. Abolish...