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…
Last night I had the weirdest sensation. I was walking back from the İkbal Lokantası in Afyon town centre to the Şehitoğlu Konaği…
Laodicea, near Denizli, was one of the Seven Churches of Asia mentioned in the New Testament. It was also briefly home to the…
Heart of Turkey’s textile industry Population: 525,000 Old names: Diopolis (Greek), Ladik (Turkish) Why would you…
If you want to visit Pamukkale but would prefer to stay in a Turkish holiday resort rather than in the small village at…
“Cotton Castle” Population: 1,850 As the bus trundles into Pamukkale from…
Poor old Fatih, forever fated to be written off as too conservative and/or stuffed with wedding dresses. Yet the strange thing is that…
It was an odd end to an otherwise enjoyable day. I’d strolled along the Bosphorus from Kuruçeşme to Bebek with my guidebook writer’s…
Walking back through Aksaray on Sunday night I spotted a banner announcing that mourning for Ashura, the tenth day of Muharrem, the first…
A watery sunbeam scythes a line across the flanks of a mountain. The setting sun casts a golden glow on the backs of…