Turkey

The southern part of Eastern Turkey is inhabited mainly by Kurds, famous for their hospitality. This is also the region with the world’s most ancient civilizations of Upper Mesopotamia, the land between Tigris and Euphrates, and where people first converted to Christianity. Although domestic tourism thrives in this region, and there can be crowds in […]

While the western part of Turkey, with Istanbul, the coast, and until Cappadocia, is a tourist hub, Eastern Turkey remains a completely blank region for most travelers, but even many Turkish people never went there. The wild and rugged Anatolian Plateau feels like being a country within a country with a completely different landscape, culture,