Over the last thirty years İstanbul has grown enormously. A city that had at the time of the Ottoman Conquest in 1453 a…
Today when Bodrum is one of Turkey’s prime holiday hotspots it’s hard to believe that it was once a place to which those…
“A culturally barren and financially impoverished mono-ethnic megalopolis.” Recognise that description? Well, believe it or not that is how William Dalrymple described Istanbul,…
Home town of the pistachio Population: 1,800,000 Old name: Ayntab ***Although Gaziantep was not…
Abandoned Hittite quarry ***Islahiye was damaged in the 2023 earthquakes. I have had no news on the fate of the quarry.*** If you’re…
If you’re planning a tour of Turkey you might want to factor in that these are the sites that UNESCO believes the world…
Setting for Homer’s Iliad Of all the hundreds of archaeological sites in Turkey, the one that is probably best-known around the world is…
Cappadocia’s wine-producing centre Population: 24,650 Old names: Osiana, Prokopi, Burgut…
Cappadocia’s “Middle Castle” Population 3,100 Market day: Sunday For decades Ortahisar was a…
Cappadocia’s “Outer Castle” Population: 3,500 “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is…