Today was the 89th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, and I observed the holiday by paying my respects to its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. At the end of World War I the Ottoman Empire was carved up, cutting Turkey back to basically just a stump....
Last night I boarded a bus from Konya to Ankara. Tuesday I’ll board a bus from Ankara to Istanbul. I’ll be in Istanbul for about 3 days, and then I bus it back to Konya to resume the walk later this week. I’m here in Ankara to document Monday’s...
And then, at the end of the day’s walk, was the city of Konya. Konya’s population is about 1 million, which I used to think was the size of just one small part of a larger city. Now a million is a sprawling megalopolis. I’ve become such a hick.
