Mini Marmaris Population: 11,250 Market day: Saturday On the far western Reşadiye Peninsula…
Site of an ancient oracle Alternative name: Apollon Tabanağı The final stop on what is widely called the PMD (Priene, Miletus and Didyma)…
Seat of the Panionic League High on Samsun Dağı (Mt Mykale, 1273m) overlooking the floodplain of the Büyük Menderes river stand the remains…
Ottoman town at the foot of a rock …
Turkey’s ceramics capital Population: 282,000 Old name: Cotyaeum (Roman) Favourite son: Ahmet Yakupoğlu (artist, flautist)…
people are familiar with the stunning Cappadocian landscape, but far fewer visit the almost equally beautiful Phrygian Valley (Frig Vadisi) in western Anatolia…
Turkey’s finest beach Population: 850 Favourite son: St Nicholas Patara is well known for having one…
Twenty-five kilometres north-west of Mudurnu is Abant Gölü (1.3 sq km), a pristine crater lake surrounded by woodland inside a national park (tabiat…
Heart of chicken-rearing country …
Shrine of Somuncu Baba Population: 24,600 Old name: Tiryandafil Market day: Monday At Darende, 110km…