The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Arçelik
Household appliances manufacturer from Turkey
With some 300 patents, this maker alone holds 10% of those filed in Turkey. Its first washing machine came out in 1959. In 2023 Whirlpool merged its European business with it in a joint venture it owns 75% of.
Photo: Pnc net (Public domain)
Gallipoli
Peninsula in northwestern Turkey
Evacuated from Crimea in 1920, Russian soldiers of General Wrangel settled on this peninsula. The monument they raised in 1921 was destroyed by an earthquake in 1949, then rebuilt in 2008.
Photo: Пакко (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Gelibolu
District and town in Çanakkale Province, Turkey
An earthquake opened the Balkans to the Ottomans. In 1354 it damaged the walls of the Greeks' "beautiful city" and Suleiman, son of Sultan Orhan, seized it. In 1915 Mustafa Kemal's Ottoman army drove back the French and British there.
Photo: Filanca (CC BY-SA 3.0)