Turkey’s highest mountain Dominating the plains around Doğubayazıt in the far east of Turkey near the Iranian border, snowcapped Mt Ararat is often…
If you’re driving from Doğubayazıt in Eastern Turkey to the Iranian border you will pass a signposted turn-off to the north that winds 4km…
Traditionally it has been claimed that the Biblical Noah’s Ark came to rest on the slopes of Ağrı Dagı (Mt Ararat) near Doğubayazıt…
While in Turkey one of the really special things that you can do is stay in one of the old Ottoman-era caravanserais (although,…
Ancient wayside inns Wherever you go in Turkey you are likely to come across the remains of the old caravanserais and hans that…
Oldest palace in the Middle East? …
Old Malatya Population: 17,000 Alternative name: Battalgazi ***Like Malatya…
Population: 428,000 Old name: Mamuret el-Aziz, Alaziz Right in the heart of Anatolia in an area surrounded by lakes created by giant dams, Elazığ,…
On the way back to Osmaniye from visiting the Hittite site in the Karatepe-Aslantaş National Park, it’s worth stopping to inspect the ruins…
The Turkish archaeologist Halet Çambel (1916-2014) was one of those people whose life seems to have been designed to make the rest of…