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ANKARA - The Capital City of Turkey
thanks to Virtue ;)
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/count...ia/treunew.gif Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Ýstanbul. Centrally located in Anatolia, Ankara is an important commercial and industrial city. It has been the neural center of the Turkish Government, and houses all foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads of trade, strategically located at the center of Turkey's highway and rail network, and serves as the marketing center for the surrounding agricultural area. Modern ANKARA is really two cities, a double identity that is due to the breakneck pace at which it has developed since being declared capital of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Until then Ankara had been a small provincial city, famous chiefly for the production of soft goat's wool. This city still exists, in and around the old citadel that was the site of the original settlement. The other Ankara is the modern metropolis that has grown up around a carefully planned attempt to create a seat of government worthy of a modern, Western-looking state. http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1...irac0wu8fm.jpg http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3...ycenter8jh.jpg http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7...ekbeym28bq.jpg http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2...da104zm2lx.jpg http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7...malimhp9xa.jpg http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8...vadisi41zi.jpg |
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http://www.worldturkey.com/gallery/d...ankara0113.jpg http://www.worldturkey.com/gallery/d...ankara0093.jpg ok, we need also in this thread some girls :D http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...la_ankara4.jpg http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/4...beymen24jo.jpg |
Altin Park
"Best Park of Eastern Mediterrian Awarded" http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/4...npark183cu.jpg http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/6...npark248he.jpg ANITKABiR - Atatürk's Mauseleum http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2...sundown3av.jpg http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/5...rresize3tv.jpg http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/2...fromair5wp.jpg |
The Citadel from back.. Unfortunately other side of citadel still holds bad looking non-historical old houses, but there are projects of clearing them.
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2...citadel2ek.jpg Some historical buildings in Ulus (Historical District) built at the first years of republic. The First Parliament of Republic of Turkey (It was a primary school actually, then converted into parliament in the independence war) http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3...lusmuz12uv.jpg http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9...turbak11hl.jpg http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/9...ckultur6vc.jpg Etnography Museum http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/5...ografya5lw.jpg http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/4433/burcank74ip.jpg Ataturk Culture & Exhibition Center http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/863/akm2vj.jpg |
Very nice, not what I expected. Right before I was discharged from the Air Force I got orders for Ankara. Was to be a 22 month tour.
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wow, nice city ,very modern. I wasnt expecting that, usually its not what they show here on tv.
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Awesome pictures, thanks! I had always heard of Ankara as "just a boring government city", but these pictures really seem to show a kick ass city!
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Very nice. Not what I had in mind at all.
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on the TV they show mostly the bad parts :(
fortunately these parts are under replanning or restoration |
Looks nice!
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Kocatepe Mosque was built in 1967-1987 in accordance with classical Ottoman models, which emphasize the placement of four minarets. Its size and prominent location make it a landmark that can be seen from most anywhere in central Ankara.
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Wow!! That's some amazing architecture!
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What a wonderful surprise :eek: Show us more please
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do you want more urban life (street level) or builginds streets etc?
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there is also this kind of architecture :D
this district is crazy:D Incek is a southern suburban district of Ankara, close to Mogan Lake. District consists of indivual estates mainly villas. Those are the ones which are called trimetal - steel construction. http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6...vannah1za2.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4...wstone2wf9.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1484/ref602ek5.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1...ount101ow2.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5...rope302fa4.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7...rope301bu5.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5...lsbury1vm8.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9...twins2air0.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1...wstone3cb0.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2412/ref603lr0.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4...merkez5tb2.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6...twins1bqi1.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3...ount601rl7.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5...rope302cx2.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5...rope301ha4.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9...ymount4ui3.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2...twins2bnf0.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1...twins1azu8.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9...wstone6zw9.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2204/ref2abr7.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1...oxford1rx7.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3...gaincekwh8.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9...75incekkq0.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1...56incekau1.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8...nkara01zs6.jpg |
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those a fine houses
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dang.. those houses look like something straight out of suburban america.. who woulda thought?
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yeah :D
strangey, funny and expensive :D |
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