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Istanbul, Turkey - October 28, 2012: Two immaculately dressed Turkish soldiers conduct a regular changing of the guards ceremony outside an ornate gate of the Dolmabahce Palace. The Dolmabahc Palac was the main seat of power for the later Ottoman Sultans who ruled a vast Euro-Asian empire from the Istanbul palace.