On the surface Ankara, the Turkish capital, may seem like a thoroughly modern city with a core of Republican buildings focused on Ulus.…
Admission (gallery only): 25 euros; children under 3 free, under 8s 12.5 euros; no other discounts for Turks, students, the elderly, museum cards.…
İstanbul cruise terminal In 2021 a project that had been many years in the planning finally opened at the point where Karaköy joins…
For visitors to İzmir in search of a view, the most obvious place to head is probably Kadifekale, the castle that overlooks the…
If there’s one staple food that defines Turkey it is not the kebab but the humble loaf of bread (ekmek) that accompanies every…
For many people one of the great unsung pleasures of a visit to Bursa will be to discover the complex network and hans…
Mehmed Vedat Tek (1873-1942) was one of the architects most closely associated with the movement that came to be known as First National…
No one could visit Turkey and not come across Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the hero of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-23) and the…
I am stretched out on the marble slab in the centre of the Çemberlitaş Hamam, soaking up the steamy atmosphere of one of…
“Axe Harbour” The upmarket Bosphorus suburb of Baltalımanı is named after Kaptan–ı Derya Baltaoğlu Süleyman Bey, a 15th-century admiral who took his nickname…