President Hotel Istanbul

... what we expected to see in the bazaar. When we got to the road to cross the river it was all blocked off. The President was coming this way some point in time. There were a lot of people waiting, shortly the soldiers, shoulder to shoulder, walked ...

... -balance to Turkey's powerful military state and the government, which have traditionally been inseperably intertwined. The president is the head of the armed forces in Turkey and also presides over meetings where officers suspected of leading a ...

... Eurasia. Actually, the city was still called Constantinople until the early 20th century when Ataturk (president or prime minister?) instituted monumental changes in Turkey. Istanbul Due to "misrule" by the Ottoman Sultans in the 16th & 17th ...

... ;  We thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Uzbekistan.  Before we came, reading about it being a Police State with the President being in complete control, and the Police continually soliciting bribes, made us a little anxious, but we had no problems ...

... takes almost precisely 1 1/2 hours, and costs 20YTL, or, most recently, about US$16.50 (Thanks to the policies of our idiot president the dollar continues to slide). The ferry actually docks at Mudanya, and from there one takes a bus to a suburb of Bursa, ...