Remembering Ataturk

After my post about Lenin statues, Austin posted his version, which really is a good bit cooler:

On my recent trip to Turkey, I spent a lot of time thinking about the differences between Turkey and Ukraine.  It takes only an hour and twenty minutes to fly over the Black Sea to Istanbul from Simferopol, but quite a bit longer to adjust to the differences between the two spaces.  Here are some children playing around the Ataturk statue in Fethiye.