The Guide
From The Report: Turkey 2012
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Turkey is a vast country with many things to see and do. The Guide contains highlights of some of the nation’s key attractions, as well as insights for new arrivals. Also contained in the guide are important phone numbers and hotel listings. The chapter also includes a feature article about the arts in Istanbul, with Bülent Eczacıbaşı, the Chairman of Eczacıbaşı Group and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts (IKSV).

Articles from this Chapter

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Art boom: Greater importance is being placed on arts and culture
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Over the course of the past decade, Turkey's economy and society have undergone drastic changes: high GDP growth, the consolidation of civilian political control and the evolution of a more nuanced perspective on the country’s role in the region. The nation's growing prominence has led the international community to increasingly value Turkish arts and culture. Public sector support for culture and the arts is quite limited in Turkey, which is why the private sector is more and more choosing…

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Soap power: The sweeping success of Turkish television series
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Beamed onto TV screens across the Middle East, the Balkans and beyond, modern Turkish culture – particularly in the form of soap operas – has never been so popular. Indeed, Turkish soaps have been held responsible by many for the rise of the country’s “soft power” – and for surging tourism to Turkey, as fans come to visit the haunts of their TV heroes. The soap’s financials are far from soft, too. In 2011, Turkey earned $60m-plus from exporting over 100 television series to…

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Rewriting pre-history: Excavations at Göbekli Tepe have unearthed some spectacular finds
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An unassuming, 20-metre hill, some 15 km north-east of Şanl›urfain South-east Turkey, seems a rather unusual place to be sending the archaeological world into a spin. Yet Göbekli Tepe, located at the northern end of what the ancients called the Fertile Crescent, is currently doing just that. In the process, it is also raising important questions about the development of civilisation itself – an impressive achievement for a site that was once dismissed as nothing more than a medieval…