© Photos and Text by Okay Deprem http://www.northtravel.org/ Today, roughly one-third of Turkey’s population consists of descendants of very different Turkic tribes and Caucasian and Balkan peoples who flocked to these lands as a result of the rapid shrinkage and subsequent collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Crimea … Continue reading Crimea: Capital of Modern Crimea: Simferopol