Between Belgradkapı and Topkapı on İstanbul’s great Byzantine Land Walls, Silivrikapı, as it name suggests was the gate through which ran the road…
For most people Ayrılık Çeşmesi is the name of a station on the Marmaray and the location of the Nautilus shopping centre. But…
Maslak is a northern business district on the European side of Istanbul whose soaring skyscrapers have created a mini New York skyline, visited…
These days you can hardly move in Istanbul for branches of Starbucks, EspressoLab, Kahve Dünyası and Caffe Nero where you can tuck into…
The name over the door could hardly be clearer. Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü Vakıf Eserleri Müzesi, it says. The trouble is that no non-Turkish-speaker…
Not so long ago the journalist Andrew Finkel could easily write that Ankara was a ‘citadel of Turkish nationalism’, a description that made…
Ankara’s blockbuster attraction is the Anatolian Civilisations Museum (open daily, admission TL280) which houses the finds from many hugely important Central Anatolian sites…
Closed Mondays. Admission 2024: TL1,050 (TL150 for Turks). Photography not allowed. Audio-guides available and worth having. Combination ticket options: https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/Lokasyon/3/Dolmabahce-Palace By the mid-1850s…
Yerebatan Sarnıçı (Basilica Cistern) Open daily 9am to 10pm. Admission: TL600 (until 6.30pm), TL1,000 (until 10pm) One of İstanbul’s best loved attractions is…
My first solo visit to Mardin was in 1994 when the troubles in the east were at their height with checkpoints everywhere and…