Turkey

About Turkey
Turkey is an easy place to fall in love with, from the warm and generous people to the perfect climate, stunning scenery and endless beaches. The country’s most popular resorts are dotted along the coastline with spectacular mosques and castles.

There is an enormous variety of things to see and do from water sports to mountain trekking, archaeology to night clubbing and river rafting to raki drinking.

The Turkish people have an unrivalled reputation for great hospitality plus a cuisine to die for.

Turkey is within easy reach, with most flights taking around four and half hours from even the most northerly of our convenient regional airports. With plenty of apartments and hotels as well as a huge number of bars and restaurants in Turkey, you get great service at great value.

Turkey History
Turkey is a land where thousands of years, hundreds of cultures have created a race of people whose hospitality is world famous.

Turkey remained a land of mixed cultures and confusions right up until the beginning of the 20th century, when it was known as the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans were defeated by a brilliant young soldier in the First World War, known to all as Ataturk.

Ataturk carried out series of far reaching reforms, designed to westernise Turkey and ease it into the modern world. With these reforms the Sultan was exiled and they abolished the ministry of religious affairs. Ataturk did not oppose religion but only its interference in the government. The memory of Ataturk is found on Turkish stamps and Lire