After a restful couple hours in bed off I went to explore the city of Gaziantep. I soon discovered that this place is full of Baklava. It's everywhere, every shop has some, every baklava shop claims to have the best. I don't know about inner city competition, but every piece of baklava that I had here was better than any baklava I've ever had anywhere else.
They also had lots of Pistachios, I bought 1 kilo for $10 and shelled a bunch for snacks later. Best decision I could have ever made, pistachio`s are amazing and even better when they are that cheap
Simply put Gaziantep was heaven in my mouth, and it was pretty cheap to. While I was exploring the city I discovered a bunch of memorials dedicated to the city of Antep and their resistance against the British and French armies in the aftermath of WW1.

Coles notes of the action that took place here: After WW1 the Ottoman empire was dissolved, and bits and pieces were claimed by different western powers, my understanding was that the French were promised the city of Antep, but British forces were the first to arrive, and had the task of occupying the city until the french arrived.
The citizens of Antep didn't like this so fought back, they had no real weapons, army, supplies, or any hope of victory, but they fought on, but lost to both the English and then the French. No victory in sight, but they fought on.
At the same time that this was happening Ataturk was busy trying to put together a functional Turkish state. In this he eventually succeeded, but not after much trials and tribulations. However Antep was the first prominent city to openly fight against occupation, fighting for a Turkey for Turks.
Interestingly enough Kurds also fought for Ataturk for a free Turkey, turns out it was a Turkey for the Turks, anyone else doesn't exists, and if they do we don't want them. Oh well.
Antep was then granted the honour of "War Hero" which relates to the Gazi at the beginning of their name, thus Gaziantep. Most people still seemed to call it Antep, but both seemed to work when asking where it was.

In the centre of the city there was a massive Castle, originally Byzantine, but occupied and remodelled by the Ottomans a bunch of times. Not much of the castle was open, just one hallway which contained a museum of the fight against the British and French forces. There were many interesting memorials all around the castle and around town as well.

Unfortunatly that was all Gaziantep had to offer, it was rainy the whole time(except 30 mins while I was on the minibus leaving the city). Fortunately this place was more of a transit point to Syria for me than an actual stop.

The next day I went in search of the mini-bus station to the Syrian Border but that`s a tale for next time