Turkey is a hugely popular destination for international travel, and interestingly manages very successfully to attract a broad range of travellers with very different interests. This predominantly Muslim country sits at the border of Europe and the Middle East. Geographically most of the country is in Asia, rather than Europe, but there is a very European outlook among many sections of Turkish society. Turkic tribes arrived from Central Asia in the early middle ages and by the Fifteenth Century had overthrown the Byzantine Empire to create their own Ottoman Empire. This empire at its height ruled over much of Eastern Europe and lasted for around six centuries until the First World War.
For Australian’s and New Zealanders Turkey has huge significance due to the landing of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) at Gallipoli in 1915. The spirit of the ANZAC
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