So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …
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Turkey
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Tourism – good thing or bad? I’ve written about Develi before –a town in central Turkey, where I was based, along with …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …
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When Emperor Constantine woke up on May 28, 1453, it would have been to the depressing thought that it was likely his last …
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I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins, but places where someone seems to …
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Autobiography & Travel
Chromite and Pine Forests – the closest I’ll ever get to the Old Syria
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOn March 21, 2011 I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey. Me and Erol, my indispensable …
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