About Turkey
"Where East meets west"
It is easy to understand why Turkey is in the top 20 of most visited tourist destinations in the world. Thus making it an ideal location for your property investment.
Location/Area
- Turkey offers a natural link between Asia and Europe, with 3% of Turkey actually being in Europe.
- Turkey is made up of 815,000 square kilometers (approx) with 10,000 sq km being water.
- Turkey is divided into 7 regions: The Aegean, The Mediterranean, Marmara, Black Sea region, Central Anatolia, and the East and Southeast Anatolia regions.
Population
Turkey has a young population with an average age of 27. The total estimate of Turkey’s population is 70,413,958 (July 2006).
Climate
Turkey is situated where climate conditions are quite temperate, with the diverse nature of the landscape, and the existence in particular of the mountains that run parallel to the coast resulting in significant differences in climatic conditions from one region to another.
The Aegean and Mediterranean coasts have a typical Mediterranean climate of hot summers and mild winters.
Transport
- Turkey has 105 commercial airports with frost flights from Ireland the UK coming into Bodrum, Dalaman, Izmir and Antalya.
- The charter flight season runs from May to October inclusive (except Antalya which is year round from the UK).
- Flights outside these times are by scheduled airlines.
- Rent-a-car services are fully available in Turkey and can be booked via the internet.
- The inter-city coach system in Turkey is excellent and coaches run daily and nightly linking large cities and smaller towns.
- Numerous yellow taxis are available and charged according to the meter.
- The Dolmus is a mini bus service only to be found in Turkey. Passengers pay on the distance traveled and the fares are fixed by the municipality and therefore offer excellent value for money.
Wining & Dining
The range of food in Turkey is enormous with the use of the freshest ingredients bringing out the richness in the flavours and sure enough to tempt the most discerning of food critics. Soups and hors d’oevres (meze) are followed by meat and fish dishes. Meals are generally finished by eating fresh fruit or alternatively famous Turkish sweets and pastries.
The most popular alcoholic drinks in Turkey are beer, locally produced wine, and the national drink of ‘raki’. Raki is an aniseed flavour drink which is diluted with water, often drunk when eating meze.
It is advisable not to drink the tap water in Turkey due to its high mineral content.
Activities
- Due to 10,000 years of history and twenty civilizations, Turkey has an amazing legacy of ancient ruins and archaeological sites.
- Exploration by the amateur historian or archaeologist into a country dubbed the ‘Crossroads of Civilization’ will not fail to delight.
- Skiing is available near Antalya between mid December and mid April. Ski in the morning and swim in the warm waters of the Mediterranean in the afternoon.
- There are championship golf courses in Belek and Bodrum.
- Scuba Diving is offered in many areas of Turkey with many dives being easily accessible and offering an abundance of marine life and underwater caverns and caves.
- White water rafting.
- Horse riding
- Windsurfing
- Water-skiing
- Water parks
