Harem

As visitors enter the door of Topkapi Palace Harem their sense of anticipation is tangible. Even today they envisage the possibility of meeting an odalisque, her long skirt trailing on the ground as she walks

 

Blue Cruise

"Blue you can understand. The sea too. But the Blue Sea is a conundrum." Poet Melih Cevdet Anday's lines come rolling off my tongue as the yachts set sail from Marmaris to Fethiye

 

Black Sea

Describing the lush greens of the Eastern Black Sea region to those who haven’t seen them isn’t easy... It’s as if nature has used a different shade of paint in every valley, on every ridge

 

Lycian Way  

which ranks with Annapurna (Nepal), Torres del Paine (Chile) and the Inca Trail (Peru) among the world’s favorite trekking routes, was selected 15th last year as one of ‘The Best 10 Hiking Trails’

 

Safranbolu 

As the mansion in which I am a guest creaks off to sleep,

I lie stretched out on a floor mattress redolent of soap in the master bedroom, examining the wheel of fortune design on the ceiling.

 

Sinan

An architect and a man of science who never stopped experimenting with new ideas up to the day he died, Sinan created an architecture whose values remain universal even today