My neighbours are from Ankara and I am familiar with Turkish food. Boreks are my favourite. From my history lessons, I know that Turkey's landscape is dotted with battlegrounds, ruined castles and the palaces of great empires. This is the land where Alexander the Great slashed the Gordon Knot, where Achilles battled the Trojans in Homer’s Iliad, and where the Ottoman Empire fought battles that would shaped the world. Also a lot of Australian soldiers were forced by the British to fight at Gallipoli so there was a huge loss of lives on both sides.