The Judge in Red

Turkish Wedding - Part One (bureaucracy)

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June 22nd 2009
Hoop 1 - Statement of Single Status Levent and I went to Turkey in August 2004 to get married. We arrived a few weeks early to organize everything. I’m not talking about flowers here. There were quite a few bureaucratic hoops to jump through. The first stop was at the US Consulate in Ankara. I really like Ankara, mostly because Levent’s sister and her family lives there and every t ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more