Turkey

Turkiye is a vast country of 85 million people, with Istanbul, a city of 15.5 million, straddling Europe and Asia. Two of its natural boundaries, the west and the south are seas while it has land borders with eight different countries, two to the northwest, Greece and Bulgaria and...

Istanbul is one of the world's most exciting cities, growing from a small city to 20 million, some on the European side of the Bosphorus but most on the Asian side. The city's origins, known as Constantinople, are on the European side, with the name changed when the Ottomans...

The impressive walls and the Hadrian Gate provide an immediate clue to the beginnings of Antalya on Turkey's southern coast. Kaleici, the old town, is behind that Gate, named in honour of the Roman Emperor, and slopes down to a small harbour where boats have traded since Roman times....

Turkey's tourist numbers, other than during the COVID epidemic, have been growing steadily through the first two decades of the 21st century. While temperatures do fall in the winter, there are usually 300 days of sunshine on the Aegean and Mediterranean coastlines each year. Part of this coastline is...

One of the things that might surprise you about the Republic of Turkey, which celebrates its centenary in 2023, is that the man regarded as the inspiration and the driving force behind independence is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was born in modern-day Greece. Many places in modern-day Turkey are...

Few cities can match Istanbul for its historical and cultural content. This vast city was home to the Ottoman sultans, whose empire lasted many centuries. Before them, it was the capital of the Byzantines, who left many reminders of their time in what was then Constantinople. While the original...