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This episode contains descriptions of violence.

Imagine yourself a top of hill in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, gazing out at a vast

landscape of green trees and red roofs.

Below you, lined with flowers, is a paved beige walkway called the Lion Road.

As you make your way down it, the smell of junipers and roses surrounds you, and a row

of lines that you screech you.

Two towers loom alongside the road, to the left, independence tower, to the right, freedom

tower, and inscribed on their walls are quotes that leap through time.

Life means fighting, it means conflict, where the nation that desires life and independence

is not such principle as begging for mercy, nation, success in life is a battle in mind,

independence or death.

As you approach the end of Lion Road, a plaza decorated with hundreds of colorful Turkish

rugs gives way to the final stop, a massive mausoleum reminiscent of the temples of ancient

Rome.

Inside, you find the sarcophagus of the man who spoke those inscribed words.

The man whose spirit animates the hills and valleys of this nation.

The man who ended a centuries-old empire and created the Republic of Turkey, forging

a road map that would guide leaders around the world in the 20th century and beyond.

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