Turkish territory offers us various experiences for vacations. Whatever your selection is doesn’t matter. A traveler can find everything here. Cultural tourism, summer tourism or anything else are the choices of a traveler in Turkey. Geography and climate help this territory to develop different types of tourism. Including some outdoor activites such as caving and rafting are getting famous and […]
Why is Turkey so important for the world history?
There are a few places that are very lucky for the history in the world. Some places are famous that their names are told even by closed eyes. There is no need to tell more words in order to define the role of this place in history. Anatolian peninsula and Thracia are such a place. We can come across many […]
Meke Lake; the diamond of mid Anatolia
Mid Anatolia is one of the beautiful regions of Turkey. Meke Lake is one of the sight seeing places. The region is a volcanic territory. The view above was taken several years ago. As the rain rate is going down, the land mark is losing its lake. Once upon a time, it was the destination of migrate birds. As the […]
History of Konya plain
Turkish landscape has many fertile agricultural fields. Because of the climate and fertile soil, we can come across many agricultural activities here through the history. Wheat production has been one of the vital agricultural activity. Hittite Empire which was the first civilization that has ever known grew up with the agricultural productitivity. Even Hittite empire weakened by the drought. This […]
2000 year old granite columns
Once upon a time, there used to be an acient site named Alexandria Troas in Western Anatolia. It was a port city and it became a rich site by the trade of granite columns. By the time, the geography has changed and the conditions have been reshaped. It became a lake so it had been forgotten in time. Then the […]
IV.Arsinoe; the younger sister of Queen VII. Cleopatra
This name isn’t famous in world history. Even she was an impressive Egyptian princess (or a queen), her name isn’t announced among the strongest women of Ancient Egypt. Her life isn’t clear and we know alittle about her. But there is one thing about her, her life ended in Ephesus. According to the records we have, she was the member […]
Turkey; water is getting less
Because of gloabal warming, fresh water is getting less in the world. Turkish landscape contains many small lakes and fresh water sources. Thus we can come across various natural sites which have various eco-systems. like the other parts of the world, Turkish landscape is in danger of drying. When we compare today with 50 years ago, around %50 of our […]
The historical main street of Istanbul;Divanyolu street
Istanbul or Constantinople; it doesn’t matter. This city has the same value. There is a historical main street in the historical peninsula. It used to be a path to the great palace of Byzantines from the Theodosius square. The historical peninsula had holy places in Byzantion and Constantinople period such as Theodosius square and Great Palace. They were on the […]
107. anniversy of the heroic defense; Çanakkale Battle
It was the period that WWI was existing. Ottoman Empire was the partner of German Empire, The frontiers of Ottoman Empire were very important in order to support tsartic Russia, especially the Dardanelles. Dardanelles strait frontier was under the joint command of German and Turkish officers. Firstly they organised one of the biggest navies of the world. They thought that […]
Mt.Ağrı;the peak of Anatolia
Mt. Ağrı is the peak of the Anatolian peninsula. It lies nearby the eastern border of Turkey. It is thought as holy by Armenian community. It was thought that it wasn’t possible to reach the peak point of Mt. Ağrı. If there was any person who achieved this, this person would have been punished by the God. It was the […]