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A few pics from Antioch and Edessa in Eastern Turkey. Both were Crusader centres, while Antioch apparently played host to St Peter, who established a church there, Edessa was allegedly the birthplace of Abraham.
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A few images from the walls of Antioch/Antakya/Hatay dating back from the Romans and breeched by the crusaders in 1098. The gate is the “Iron Gate” to the west of the city.
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Pics from a visit to the Gallipoli peninsula, where British, Australian, New Zealanders, and French troops landed on 25 April 1915 with the aim of closing off the Dardanelles and seizing Istanbul to knock Turkey out of the war. Instead it turned into bloody trench warfare with tens of thousands of killed and injured on both sides until the Allied powers nine months later withdrew having realised the futility of the operation.
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More pictures from street life in Istanbul and a few famous landmarks…
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Main shopping street.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Main shopping street.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Every Saturday demonstrators gather on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul to remember the 587 people mostly associated with the political left in Turkey that went missing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. People sitting or sleeping in front of the Bank of Turkey on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Young street musician on the main pedestrian street in Istanbul.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Graffiti and police vehicle on main pedestrian street in Istanbul.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Food stall chef.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Blue Mosque.
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- Various street life pictures from Istanbul – people and places. Blue Mosque.
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A black smith creating a heart and arrow of iron for a girl named Irem in Istanbul.
