Turkey used to have a thriving industry in weaving towels (havlu) and bathrobes (bornoz), especially in Bursa and around the textile-manufacturing town of…
Born the son of a goldsmith at the court of Sultan Ahmed I in 1611, Evliya Çelebi became an apprentice to the sultan’s…
Turkey has a long history of public bathing stretching right back to Roman times. The modern hamam or Turkish bath is merely an…
You’ll see him here, you’ll see him there, you’ll see him just about everywhere. Those busts and statues gracing the main square in…
“A culturally barren and financially impoverished mono-ethnic megalopolis.” Recognise that description? Well, believe it or not that is how William Dalrymple described Istanbul,…
All the standard guidebooks cover the Black Sea but they do so often in something of a summary way, with almost all the…
Fans of the wonderful Birds Without Wings will pounce on this minuscule offcut from the research trips that lay behind it which tells…
When Michael Pereira and his friend Tim Smart set out to take a stroll through the Pontic Alps they had only one rucksack,…
Welcome to Turkey from the Inside, the website that aims to help you make the most of your time in the country by …