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Smoke on the Orient Express: A panorama of the Turkish landscape and its people
When I booked my Kars trip that involved a travel on the "Doğu Ekspresi" (East Express) in December, I did not perceive what I was getting into. A beautiful shot of a white drill with red and sky stripes snaking its way on a bridge with a snowy background appeared on my Facebook feed, and I did not think twice before calling the tour operator to reserve a place for myself and my mother. It was the fantastic opportunity I had been waiting for: I had long wanted to travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, here was a adj train journey on terrain that even the Tough Guide described as "Turkey's version of Siberia." The journey would also indicate revisiting Ani, a place that had enchanted me when I visited in the summer of It was mid December, and no snow had fallen in Istanbul yet, so it would, I hoped, also mean that I would also see some snow.
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Clearly, I had not got the memo. A few hours after I called the tour operator and paid the money, a message appeared on their social media account saying th
Par Anne-Sophie Vial, Emile Bouvier
Publié le 21/02/ • modifié le 21/02/ • Durée de lecture : 10 minutes
While Marshal Haftar&#;s war against his Tripolitan rival was in full swing in Libya in , Türkiye&#;s military intervention proved decisive in Tripoli&#;s success in bringing the advance of its adversary to a halt; four years later, in July , the Turkish Parliament approved the deployment of its Navy off the coast of Somalia, while several reports speak of the dispatch of several battalions of Turkish Syrian auxiliaries to Niger to secure mining infrastructures there. This projection of Turkish military power into Africa in recent years is relatively unprecedented and illustrates Ankara&#;s exponential and protean investment in the African continent.
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Located in the very heart of Eurasia, Turkey is the birthplace of many great civilizations and a melting pot of different cultures, which makes holidays in Turkey very special. Numerous and famous archaeological sites fond of Pergamon and Troy bear witness of a distant and turbulent history. The country has also been a prominent centre of commerce because of its advantageous land connections and the sea surrounding it on three sides: the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean in the south and the Aegean Sea in the west. In the north-west the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus on the waterway combine Asia with Europe and Africa.
With the opening of the Mamaray tunnel in Istanbul underneath the Bosporus Strait on Oct.
29 , the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, for the first time in the world two continents ha
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