Aydin, our Turkish guide, says: ‘You did see the ruins, surely?’ as we’re about to leave our hotel in Antalya. We stare back at him, blankly.
‘You didn’t show them?’ Aydin reproaches the manager in disbelief. Without further ado, we are taken down into the subterranean Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman layers beneath the hotel, which the owners had spent 17 years excavating.
We gawp. It’s exquisite.
Our holiday with the Slow Cyclist Company involves e-bikes and hikes through the Taurus
While the Bank of England battles rising costs, Turkey is being ravaged by inflation.
Inflation almost touched 50 per cent in July as an overheating economy put consumers under strain, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute.
Consumer prices rose 47.8 per cent last month, a substantial increase from 38.2 per cent
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the Turkish election it has officially been confirmed extending his iron rule for a third decade.
Thousands of people took the streets of Ankara and Istanbul with flares and flags to celebrate the result, which will mean Erdogan’s dominant yet divisive rule will now continue until 2028.
Tonight, the Turkish High Election Board announced he had received 52.14 per cent of the votes, with his rival Kilicdaroglu winning 47.86 per cent.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
When the first earthquake, 7.8 in magnitude, struck just outside Gaziantep on Monday morning, Gürkan Arpaci considered himself lucky. About eighty miles away, in Elbistan, the small Turkish town where Arpaci was born and lives, only three or four buildings had collapsed and there didn’t seem to be too many casualties. Almost everyone he knew appeared on the street in the freezing pre-dawn hour, wondering what to do next. Arpaci’s family has two cars, one belonging to him and one
Massive earthquakes that hit Turkey on Monday have shifted the tectonic plate it sits on by up to 10 feet (three metres), experts say.
The country lies on major faultlines that border the Anatolian Plate, Arabian Plate and Eurasian Plate, and is therefore prone to seismic activity.
Meteorologists revealed that an 140 mile (225 km) stretch of the fault between the Anatolian Plate and the Arabian Plate has ruptured.
Italian seismologist Dr Carlo Doglioni told news site Italy 24 that
When the wildfires crashed down the mountains above Marmaris, the beekeeper İbrahim Şahin was returning from a funeral to his home in the village of Osmaniye. At first, he was unconcerned—fires happen frequently in this part of southwestern Turkey, and rarely become cataclysmic. Then Şahin received a phone call from the head of his village. The fires were already upon Osmaniye. Everyone needed to evacuate.
The fires continued to spread. Pinecones exploded as if the trees were lobbing hand grenades.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are strange bedfellows — sometimes close strategic partners, but sometimes bitter regional adversaries.
For now, the Turkish leader is casting himself as a middleman, as he visited the Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus waterfront last week to personally welcome Ukrainian and Russian negotiators gathering for peace talks.
In assuming this role, Erdoğan is treading a delicate tightrope. The relationship between Turkey and
If you’re in the market for some winter sun somewhere sensational, Turkey is just the ticket.
Here Ashley Pearson offers five reasons why – five of the country’s hottest hotels. She’s stayed in them all and says they offer something for everyone.
There’s the magical bucket-list one, crafted from the ruins of an ancient 2,000-year-old monastery, the breathtakingly romantic one – and the ones that’ll keep all the family happy. They all have something in common though – the wow
