Five Minaret Country Population: 54,000 Throughout the 1990s, Bitlis hunkered down…
Population: 117,000 At first sight Muş, due east of Binğol in the southeast of Turkey, seems to consist of nothing more than a…
One Thousand Lakes? Population: 93,000 A provincial capital with a deceptively pretty name, Bingöl…
“High Souls” (Suryani)/”High Place” (Arabic) Population: 2,000 Most famous sons: İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, İsmail Fakirullah Pretty little Tillo is to Siirt what Şirinçe is…
Home to the büryan kebab …
Centre of all things Kurdish Population: 1,100,000 Old names: Amedros, Amed, Dikranagerd (Armenian) Way over…
Turkey’s best village home-stay Population: 400 As you whip through the countryside on the way…
Home to the beehive houses Population: 7,800 Old name: Carrhae (Roman), Hellenopolis (Byzantine)…
Presumed burial-place of King Antiochus ***Nemrut Dağı falls within the area hit by the two earthquakes of 2023. Miraculously, the tumulus with the…
Best base for visiting Nemrut Dağı Population: 63,000 Old name: Kolik ***Kahta was…