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Nov 21, 2009

Turkey in Foreign Press

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Africa’s silent child -- Togo
LOME -- Togo is a West African nation which has neither an embassy nor a consulate in Turkey. You can enter Togo, which has Atlantic Ocean coastlines and Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso as its neighbors, by purchasing a $20 visa at its border.

[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes]
Across Anatolia with British traveler W.J. Childs in 1914 (II)
Childs chose the Central Anatolian town of Sivas to pay off Achmet, the loyal araba driver who had guided him from the Black Sea port of Samsun.

Scaling the heights of Kozan
As you pull into Kozan, one hour's drive northeast of Adana, you will see an extraordinary sight.

[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes] Across Anatolia on foot with British traveler W.J. Childs in 1914
“Asia Minor has been traversed from end to end, and sea to sea, by many Europeans in the past; American missionaries, too, not only men, but unattended women, go freely about the country as a matter of course. …

Kicking back in Kilis en route to Syria
Most people traveling overland from Turkey to Syria head straight for Antakya to cross the border.

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A trade center in West Africa: Benin’s city of Cotonou Porto Novo -- You can reach the large Beninese trade city of Cotonou after a 10-hour flight, with a stopover in Casablanca, from İstanbul. You should know that you can purchase a visa directly at the airport in Cotonou, but you could also arrange yours at the Beninese Honorary Consulate in İstanbul

[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes] Adventures in the Near East with Alexander Kinglake In many ways, Alexander Kinglake, poised in 1834 to cross the border between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire near Belgrade, was the prototype of the modern backpacker.

Kanlıdivane and the gates of hell Wow! Sometimes even a travel writer stumbles upon a place so extraordinary that no words seem adequate to evoke that first punch-in-the-stomach impression of wonder.

Making a day of it in Mersin Ah, Mersin. Now here's a town that still makes life easy for its independent visitors with a bus terminal that's not in the depths of the countryside and a lineup of hotels facing it that offers something for virtually everyone.

The wonders of Iran TEHRAN -- Direct flights connect Iran and Turkey, and quite often -- especially during the summer months -- these flights are full.

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Africa’s silent child -- Togo

[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes] Across Anatolia with British traveler W.J. Childs in 1914 (II)

Scaling the heights of Kozan

[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes] Across Anatolia on foot with British traveler W.J. Childs in 1914

Kicking back in Kilis en route to Syria

A trade center in West Africa: Benin’s city of Cotonou

[Turkey through a traveler’s eyes] Adventures in the Near East with Alexander Kinglake

Kanlıdivane and the gates of hell

Making a day of it in Mersin



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