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…
Some years ago in a dusty antique shop in Beyşehir I was shown a black-and-white postcard of a strange, lumpy-looking block of stone…
In the 1930s when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s first president, was trying to construct a history of Turkey that would suit its new…
“Inscribed Rock” Three km from the Hittite capital at Hattuşa lies a double gully whose walls are covered with 64 carvings of some…
Bronze Age “Hill of Ashes” At Kültepe, northeast of Kayseri off the road to Bünyan, you can visit the enigmatic remains of ancient…
High on a wooded hillside north of Osmaniye overlooking the beautiful lake created by the Aslantaş Barajı (Aslantaş Dam) stands one of Turkey’s…
Population: 100 Old name: Loriz Twenty km southwest of the Central Anatolian town of Ereğli lies the village of Aydınkent with, beyond it…
Abandoned Hittite quarry ***Islahiye was damaged in the 2023 earthquakes. I have had no news on the fate of the quarry.*** If you’re…
World heritage Hittite site Population: 1,200 If the mosque at Divriği is Turkey’s least visited world heritage site,…