At Cape Helles, the southern tip of the Gelibolu Yarımadası (Peninsula) beyond Eceabat and Kilitbahir, is Abide (Monument), the huge Çanakkale Martyrs’ Memorial…
Çorum’s excellent museum (closed Mondays) is housed in building designed as a hospital in 1914 and later used as a school. Pick up the excellent…
“Little Bridge” Old name: Rhegium (Roman), Rhagion Festival: Ashura (changing date) With time on your hands you might want to take the Marmaray west…
Sadly, the İstanbul Carpet Museum that opened in 2013 did not reopen after the Covid pandemic and the conversion of Ayasofya back into…
Open: Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 9am-5pm; Saturdays and Sundays 10am-6pm Closed: Mondays Admission: TL60 Contact info: Tel: 0212-327 4345, www.denizmuzeleri.tsk.tr/idmk/ Address: Beşiktaş Meydanı (Square), Beşiktaş Transport…
Open: 9am-5pm (closed Mondays) Admission: TL8 Audioguide: TL5 (excellent) Contact info: 0342-325 2727, gaziantepmuzesi.gov.tr Address: Hacı Sanı Konukoğlu Bulvarı Transport: Buses to the Otogar (bus station) pass in front…
You wouldn’t want to make a special trip to Germüş, about 10km east of Şanlıurfa, unless you have a particular interest in churches…
Old name: Doliche Dülük/Doliche was the site of a temple to Zeus Dolichenus as well as of an even earlier temple to Mithras.…
Turkey’s finest bridge? Population: 1,500 Other name: Çatakköprü Malabadi is little more than a waystation on the…
Last resting place of Kılıç Arslan I Population: 49,000 Old names: Tigranakert (?), Martyropolis, Meyyefarkin, Farqina Midway along the road from Diyarbakır to…