While in İstanbul recently I got chatting to a woman who had been married to a Turk for more than forty years. Like…
A mosque is a mosque is a mosque, right? Wrong! You could perhaps be forgiven for thinking in this way while travelling around…
When is a museum not a museum? When it’s the Museum of Innocence, of course. First a novel and now a beautifully presented…
The man sitting across from me in the corner cafe is almost blue with cold. What’s more his hands are shaking uncontrollably. “Here,…
“Fountain with a Mirror Stone” Aynalıçeşme is that rare thing for İstanbul – a central district that is as yet relatively undiscovered. It…
One of the main reasons people visit Çeşme is to take the boat over to the Greek island of Chios, little more than…
City named after Atatürk Population: 114,250 Old names: Nymphaeion (Greek), Nif (Turkish) If you’re staying in İzmir and have some time…
“Quite White Castle” …
Population: 101,000 Other names: Pirsus (Kurdish) Southwest of Urfa, the town of Suruç was already a pretty desperate place even before it was…
Population: 4,000 Until recently there was not much reason why anyone would venture south of Nizip to Karkamış despite the fact that there…