About Turkey

Turkey, the country that builds on old and rich history, is at the same time a member of modern world. It represents a cultural melting pot, a synthesis of East and West, while it geographically bridges Europe and Asia. It combines natural beauties with its 10.000 year old heritage and is giving today’s travellers a unique opportunity to learn and enjoy the life and culture in this geography called Asia Minor. It is the only secular and democratic Moslem country in the world ! Turkey stretches out on 1600 km (1000 miles) from East to West and 550 km (340 miles) from North to South. With its 8000 km (5000 miles) shoreline this unique country offers exotically beautiful landscapes and has one of the cleanest waters in the world.

The Turkish people have an unrivalled reputation for hospitality and their cuisine is to die for! The Turk is the most gracious and generoushost. Even the poorest peasant feels bound to honour his guest in the best possible manner. Hospitality is taken to such lengths that a foreigner often feels he is suffering of surfeit of it, after being plied with food and drinks for hours and being unable to refuse anything lest he hurt his host’s feelings. In addition to ensuring his guests’s material well being, he makes every effort to converse no matter what the linguistic barriers might be