Until recently, the architectural heritage of the Selçuks, who ruled most of Anatolia from 1037 until 1307, tended to be overshadowed by that…
Turkey’s tallest waterfall Don’t make the mistake of looking for Tortum waterfall near the town of Tortum on the road from Erzurum to…
Turkey’s first white-water rafting town Population: 6,500 Market day: Saturday ***In…
Population: 4,700 Old name: Mamahatun If you’re staying in Erzurum or Erzincan, you can easily take a bus trip out to Tercan, where the…
“Hasan’s Castle” Population: 12,600 Old/other names: Biani, Basean, Hasankale Favourite sons: Nef’l…
“Saddle-shedder” Over in Turkey’s frozen northeast you’ll find the finest and most guaranteed snow on the slopes of Ejder Dağı (Mt Dragon, 3,125m),…
Between the 9th and 14th centuries a large part of the northeast corner of Turkey formed part of the Kingdom of Georgia. If you drive…
Turkey’s coldest town? Population: 455,000 In the northeastern corner of Turkey,…
Roughly delineated by an imaginary line drawn south from Trabzon on the Black Sea coast through Erzincan to Tunceli and then heading east…