I think it’s probably fair to say that users of public transport don’t feature very highly in the list of priorities with the…
Out in the barren hills that back the eastern suburbs of Malatya lies the pinprick village of Venk which is home to the ruins…
The expression “rich as Croesus” has worked its way into the English language as a way to describe someone basking in Jeff Bezos-style…
“Kaz var (We have goose),”‘ say the signs in restaurant windows which is enough to make anyone except a vegetarian start licking their…
Population: 16,200 Old name: Kırk Kilise Çaldıran is a small town on the road south from Doğubayazıt to Muradiye and close to the…
To catch a glimpse of Turkey at play jump into any dolmuş heading along Meram Yeni Yol (New Road) and get out at…
At 5 o’clock in the morning, before most people have even opened their eyes, Dudu and her 20-year-old daughter Hatice are already hard…
On a sunny April day in 2015 I decided to go in search of Frenk Caddesi, the old Frank (Foreigners) Street that was…
“You were the land of black roses. What happened to your land, Halfeti? You surrendered yourself to concrete-walled waters. What happened to your…
Row upon row of featureless summer houses with piles of builders’ rubble abandoned in between them. A giant branch of the cut-price supermarket…