Tourism

A tall office block with a grid of windows and a pink sign reading T.C. Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı along its roof edge, seen from the street across a gate, a large dark screen and a tree

Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Technology: What It Does

What Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology does, who heads it, and two bodies under it a foreigner...

A wide pale stone courthouse of five storeys with rows of narrow windows, the gold letters ANKARA ADALET SARAYI above its two glass entrances, a red flag on a pole above the roof and clipped bushes and a fountain in front, under a clear blue sky

Turkey’s Ministry of Justice: Courthouse, Mediation, Records

What Türkiye's Ministry of Justice does and what a foreigner meets at a courthouse: front desk, interpreter, mediation,...

19 min read

The two-storey marble front of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus, with columns, statues in niches and a wide stair, under a blue sky

Culture

Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism: What It Does

Museums, old finds, licences for hotels, holiday homes and guides, film permits and complaints: which desk of the...

15 min read

The snow-covered ridge of Uludağ rising above the plain of Bursa, seen from a plane window in winter, with haze and a bank of cloud over the plain

Cities

Bursa for Visitors: The First Ottoman Capital and Uludağ

Where the early Ottoman capital stands today: Ulu Cami, the green tomb, Cumalıkızık, the Uludağ cable car, Çekirge...

19 min read

A white city bus with a blue lower side and the fleet number EGO-09-542 on its flank, its front doors open at a wet kerb, with trees and a street lamp behind it

Guides

City Buses in Turkey: Cards, Fares and Transfers

Who runs the city buses in seven cities of Türkiye, each city’s card and fare, who rides free,...

21 min read

A castle of pale stone with towers and long walls on a rocky headland over deep blue sea, green hills and white houses behind it under a clear sky

Guides

Bodrum, Turkey: Castle, Museums, Ruins and Getting There

Bodrum Castle and its underwater museum, the Halicarnassus ruins, public beaches, the airport bus line and the forest...

19 min read

The courtyard of Koza Han in Bursa seen from an upper arcade: café tables under green and red umbrellas round the small domed prayer room, with plane trees overhead

Shopping in Bursa: hans, bazaars, silk and malls

Bursa’s han quarter building by building, what is sold where, district markets, malls and Turkish lines to use...

16 min read

Illustration: the hot room of an Ottoman hammam. Gold light falls through round and star-shaped glass lights in a tall stone dome into soft steam; a low octagonal marble platform stands in the middle of the floor, marble basins with copper taps line the walls, and a copper bowl and a pair of wooden clogs wait beside them; nobody is in the room

Culture

A Day at a Turkish Hammam: What Happens, What to Wear, What to Say

A hammam is a heated public bath. Walk through its rooms, learn what to wear and say, and...

16 min read

A stony path along a rocky wooded hillside, with a valley and mountains behind, near Ölüdeniz

Lycian Way in Turkey: Route, Stages, Parks and Ruins

A 760 km waymarked footpath from Ölüdeniz to Geyikbayırı: its stages, dated route changes, national parks, ancient sites...

17 min read

Illustration: a paraglider wing spread on a grassy launch slope above a turquoise sea, with an empty harness and a helmet beside it, a windsock, and two small wings flying far out over the lagoon

Paragliding in Turkey: Pilot Checks and Fethiye Rules

The papers a Turkish tandem pilot and agency must have, the Fethiye rules in plain words, and a...

16 min read

The pale stone front of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus: two storeys of columns, three doorways, three windows and a flight of steps, under a clear blue sky, with ruined walls on both sides

Biblical Sites in Turkey: Map, Verses, Tickets and Hours

Where the biblical sites in Turkey are today, the verse that names each, the fees, museum passes and...

18 min read

Illustration: a sand and pebble beach on the Sea of Marmara with striped umbrellas and a lifeguard tower, a white city ferry on the water and the domes and minarets of old Istanbul on the horizon

Beaches in Istanbul: The Best Places to Swim and How to Get There

Pick from Istanbul’s 94 tested swimming areas by side, water class and bus or ferry, using the Health...

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Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Technology: What It Does

Turkey’s Ministry of Justice: Courthouse, Mediation, Records

Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism: What It Does

Bursa for Visitors: The First Ottoman Capital and Uludağ

City Buses in Turkey: Cards, Fares and Transfers

Bodrum, Turkey: Castle, Museums, Ruins and Getting There

Shopping in Bursa: hans, bazaars, silk and malls

A Day at a Turkish Hammam: What Happens, What to Wear, What to Say

Lycian Way in Turkey: Route, Stages, Parks and Ruins

Paragliding in Turkey: Pilot Checks and Fethiye Rules

Biblical Sites in Turkey: Map, Verses, Tickets and Hours

Beaches in Istanbul: The Best Places to Swim and How to Get There