Until recently, the architectural heritage of the Selçuks, who ruled most of Anatolia from 1037 until 1307, tended to be overshadowed by that…
When thinking about ancient cities once enclosed by walls Turkey is not necessarily the country that most readily springs to mind, with the…
It’s not easy to be a travel writer when at heart you’re rather an earnest person. Travel is, after all, an essentially frivolous…
Born the son of a goldsmith at the court of Sultan Ahmed I in 1611, Evliya Çelebi became an apprentice to the sultan’s…
If you’re planning a tour of Turkey you might want to factor in that these are the sites that UNESCO believes the world…
Anyone who has lived in the UK will be familiar with the popular pastime of visiting National Trust houses that are open to…
Centre of all things Kurdish Population: 1,100,000 Old names: Amedros, Amed, Dikranagerd (Armenian) Way over…
For those of an adventurous disposition South-Eastern Turkey is usually the destination of choice. An oblique rectangle with its corners turning on Malatya,…
The big disappointment of this visit to Diyarbakır is to find so many of the things I’d visited eighteen months ago closed for…
Yippee! The great thing about having visited the giant heads on Nemrut Dağı last night is that we don’t have to get up…