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Turkey is a country with a multiple identity, poised uneasily between East and West. The only NATO member in the Middle East region, the country has recently been accepted as a candidate for membership of the EU. Yet although in many respects Western, Turkey retains its frustrating differences, and its contradictions: mosques coexist with churches, and remnants of the Roman Empire crumble alongside ancient Hittite and Neolithic sites. Politically, modern Turkey was a bold experiment, founded on the remaining Anatolian kernel of the Ottoman Empire and almost entirely the creation of a single man, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk . An explicitly secular republic, though one in which almost all of the inhabitants are at least nominally Muslim, it's a vast country and incorporates large disparities in levels of development. But it's an immensely rewarding place to travel, not least because of the people, whose reputation for friendliness and hospitality is richly deserved.
Western Turkey is the most visited and economically developed part of the country. Istanbul , straddling the Bosphorus straits and the Marmara coast, is a heady mix of the Oriental and state-of-the-art modern. It's the country's cultural and commercial centre and also visibly the old imperial capital, and would take months of exploration to truly do it justice. Flanking Istanbul on opposite sides of the Sea of Marmara are the two earlier Ottoman capitals, Bursa and Edirne , and the former Byzantine capital of Iznik , with, just beyond, the World War I battlefields of the Dardanelles.
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Abant Yolu, 3 Kilometer,
Alanya,
Bodrum,
Bursa,
Dalyan,
Datca,
Foca,
Istanbul,
Kalkan,
Kas,
Kemer,
Kusadasi,
Manavgat,
Marmaris,
Milas,
Mugla,
Sarigerme,
Side,
Silifke,
Sorgun,
Sorgun Manavgat,
Tasucu,
Yalova,
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