When the 17th-century Turkish writer Evliya Celebi, who traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire recording everything he saw, visited Malatya he remarked upon the plentiful water from numerous springs, the good air, and the orchards and vineyards in the green plain, and said that this was a city which aroused the admiration of all those who […]
THE STORY OF TURKISH FOOD
“Do not dismiss the dish saying that it is just, simply food. The blessed thing is an entire civilization in itself!” Abdulhak Sinasi Turkish Cuisine: Prologue For those who travel engaged in culinary pursuits, Turkish Cuisine is a very, curious one. The variety of dishes that make up the cuisine, the ways they all come […]
MIGRATORY BIRDS OF TURKEY
Geographically, Turkey enjoys a very special location concerning seas and landmasses, and a remarkable diversity of terrain, habitat, and climate, with a large number of streams and rivers. The country has a coastline of 8200 kilometers, yet an average altitude of over 1100 meters. Vast forests of spruce and fir suddenly make way for bare […]
ROMAN GLADIATORS IN EPHESOS WERE ON A VEGETABLE DIET
The analysis made on Roman gladiators bones buried in Ephesus shows that they might have been vegetarians, according to the news published in Plos One. In a study by the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the […]
COMBINE & CONQUER: MOROCCO & SPAIN ITINERARY
Spain has been one of the most popular destinations in the globe for many years now. And Morocco is consistently featured as one of the coolest places to visit in travel magazines. Isn’t it great that you are so close to both? Here is our proposal to you: if you ask about either one, we […]
VAST UNDERGROUND CITY FOUND IN NEVSEHIR, CAPPADOCIA TURKEY
Since the Bronze Age that the first deadly weapons hammered out until these days; heaps of legions passed over Anatolia and moved to the west or the east. Original inhabitants, who used to live in the Cappadocia region in the heart of Anatolia, carved the caves into the Cappadocia’s soft tufa rocks and dug underground […]
WHERE & HOW TO: PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY IN CAPPADOCIA
Photo Shooting Tours by Travel Atelier You can be a professional photographer of any kind including travel and wedding, a film director, someone who loves taking good photographs or an amateur travel photographer collecting memories. If your journey takes you to Cappadocia or you have an assignment here, you can ensure that you will be […]
ISLAM AND TURKEY
The secular nature of the Turkish state is enshrined in its constitution and discrimination on religious grounds is not acceptable. Nevertheless, the majority of the population is Moslem and a government department exists to administer Islamic religious affairs. The Islamic religion derives from the Prophet Mohammed who was born in Mecca in 571 AD into […]
THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF REVELATION
The Seven Churches of Revelation (Asia Minor) St. John recorded letters to the Seven Churches in Asia, as part of Revelation, the last book of the Bible. Exiled on the island of Patmos as he saw visions and recorded them, he must have longed to be able to visit the churches in person to deliver […]
FATIH SULTAN MEHMET – MEHMED THE CONQUEROR
By name Mehmed Fatih (Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet – English: Mehmed the Conqueror) (b. March 30, 1432, Adrianople, Thrace, Ottoman Empire- D. May 3, 1481, Hunkarcayiri, near Maltepe, near Constantinople), Ottoman sultan from 1444 to 1446 and from 1451 to 1481. A great military leader, he captured Constantinople and conquered the territories in Anatolia and […]