“Little Quince” Population: 8,000 Market day: Friday Ayvacık is one of those rather…
“Long Bridge” Population: 4o,o00 Old names: Plotinopolis (Greek), Makra Gephyra, Cizr-i…
When you’re researching a travel article everything sometimes works out perfectly first time round. Unfortunately on other occasions it simply doesn’t, which is…
Writing about Cizre this week memories from last year came flooding back. Cizre was one of the few towns in Turkey I had…
Town that inspired Akyaka Population: 7,700 Market day: Friday Favourite son: Nail Çakırhan (self-taught architect) A…
Dumlupınar is the site of the last and most decisive battle of the Turkish War of Independence that took place between 26 and…
Turkey’s third largest city İzmir is actually a lot more interesting than might appear at first glance so it’s a shame that it…
Let’s start by saying that I wolfed this book down in two giant helpings which says everything for its exquisite readability. The Lovers…
Home to Turkey’s best cooks Population: 5,500 Market day: Saturday Festival: Mengen Cooks and Tourism Festival,…
Population: 120,000 Old names: Bithynium, Claudiopolis, Hadriana ad Honorias Market day: Monday Koroğlu Festival: Late September Bolu is the small and not especially exciting…