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Last Travel News from Turkey

Ottoman style -- staying overnight in Turkey’s Ottoman heritage
What do you imagine when you think of Turkey? Maybe it’s the mosques and the palaces, but maybe it’s the lovely old wooden houses that were once a mainstay of towns in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Winter days in the Taurus Mountains
For the convert, the allure of mountains dressed in their winter garb of snow and ice is self-evident. The silence and solitude of a virgin-white landscape, snow-crystals glittering under a low yet powerful sun, mountain ribs, spurs and boulders encrusted with delicate ice formations, cedars, pines and junipers dusted with fresh powder snow or dripping with icicles, the track of a hare or fox crisscrossing the route ahead.

Exploring the Tur Abdin a forgotten treasure of southeastern Turkey
Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry stone walls. Imagine village after honey-colored village, each with its church tower punctuating the skyline.

Ghosts of Greek Orthodox Christians past: Fethiye’s Kaya Köyü
Ascending a lichen-crusted cobbled pathway winding its way through tier upon tier of abandoned, roofless houses, stepped to cope with the steepness of the hillside, it’s hard not to conjure up the ghosts of a not-so-very-distant past.

Turkey’s deep south Nusaybin and Cizre
Visitors to Midyat in southeastern Turkey are spoiled for choice when it comes to day-trip destinations.

The marvels of Midyat
Back in the mid-1990s I was raving to a friend about the beauty of Mardin in Southeast Turkey.

Kaş: where the mountains meet the sea
The seaside town of Kaş, at the southernmost reaches of Turkey’s beautiful Lycian coast, is one of the most charming resorts in the country.

Top Travel tips for Turkey 2012
Welcome to 2012, everyone! And seeing that this is a time when so many people will be making resolutions to see them through the coming year, it seems the perfect opportunity to dangle some tempting travel prospects in front of you so that you can schedule your weekend breaks around them.

Seduced by Selçuk’s peaks
Traveling along the motorway from Izmir to my home in Didim at night, I can’t wait to arrive at Selçuk.

A tale of two churches and Santa Claus: Demre and Dereağzı
It is hard to believe that the small, scruffy agricultural town of Demre, boxed in by an untidy maze of greenhouses devoted to the cultivation of Turkish culinary staples such as aubergines, peppers and tomatoes, was one of the most important cities on Turkey's southwest Mediterranean shore in ancient times.