• Elif EREN (Kusadasi) - Shima Travel is AAA Class travel agency that specializes in services for groups and individual travelers coming to Turkey from overseas. Our company is capable of arranging mass organizations and private services according to your demands.
• Tolun Cerkes (Cappadocia) - My name is Tolun. If you want to plan a private tour of Turkey you are at the right place, I am an archaeologist and have been working as a tour guide in every corner of Turkey for many years. If you want a special tour of Turkey, I offer my own private tours with my own minivan. I will do my best to make your trip a wonderful experience.
• Serkan Kececi (Istanbul) - Because Anatolia has been a cradle for many civilizations, history and tourism have always been my biggest passion. I have been working as a free-lance professional tourist guide in Anatolia since 1995 and I have more or less covered every square inch of my country. Our professional tour guides are at least 5 years experienced and they all have a wonderful background at vip, private or group tours.
Emre ONAL (Istanbul) - I am a licensed tour guide, I am guiding in english, french and italian since 20 years. For my daily city tours I can provide an air-cond luxurious Mercedes Mini Van and I have a Chrysler Voyager.
ersin (Cappadocia) - Hi dears ,My name is Ersin who was born in the heart of cappadocia region with its wonderful lanscape in 1983 and from my highschool time untill now ı m trying to be between the foreign tourists by helping them as far as ı can do as a local people of this region. ı m normally doing my father job harvesting in these fertile lands of cappadocia,when my father died ı started to do it by knowing the old tradition of Anatolia, ı just wanna keep on this old tradition by using the tracteur of my father in there.
Bazaars, Mosques and the down town (Istanbul) - We start our walk with Grand Bazaar, then stroll through some back streets of Mahmut Pasa, explore some 'Hans' (old fashion shopping centers), eventually end up with Spice Market. We will visit Rustem Pasa Mosque, it has beautiful Iznik Tiles.
Turkish Night (Kusadasi) - This option is for both Cruise and hotel customers. Its not like any other nights you have seen.
House of Virgin Mary & Artemis Temple (Kusadasi) - This tour is "Halfday" for both Cruise & Hotel customers. Shima Travel tour guide will pick you up from the Seaport or Hotel at desired time and will drop you or your group off at same location after tour finishes.
Full Day Bosphorus Tour (Istanbul) - Full Day Bosphorus Tour Bosphorus is the name of the strait which lies between Europe and Asia. The strait Bosphorus connects the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea and its length is approximately 30 km, 21 mile long.
Walking Tour of Old City - Topkapi Palace, St. Sophia, Blue Mosque etc. (Istanbul) - Walking Tour of Sultanahmet Topkapi Palace, which was used by the Ottoman Sultans from the 15th to 19th centuries. We will also see the impressive collection of priceless jewels, crystal, silver and porcelain, robes worn by the sultans and relics of the prophet Mohammed.
CAPITAL CITY OF Turkey: Ankara LANGUAGE OF Turkey: Turkish CURRENCY OF Turkey: New Turkish Lira (YTL) COMMENTS ABOUT Turkey: Turkey is located on the Mediterranean, in the Anatolian region of West Asia Cities : Ankara (capital), Antalya, Bursa, Edirne, Istanbul, Izmir, Konya, Sinop, Trabzon
Best Places : Bergama, Bozcaada, Bodrum, Beypazarı, Datça, Göreme, Hasankeyf, Marmaris, Olympos, Safranbolu Electricity : 220V/50Hz (European plug) Calling Code : +90 Time Zone : UTC +2
Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the People's Congress of Kurdistan or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives, but after the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey, mainly to northern Iraq. In 2004, KGK announced an end to its ceasefire and attacks attributed to the KGK increased. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy, enabling it to begin accession membership talks with the European Union. CLIMATE OF Turkey: temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior RELIGION OF Turkey: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews) POPULATION OF Turkey: 69,660,559 (July 2005 est.)> ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Turkey: Turkey's dynamic economy is a complex mix of modern industry and commerce along with a traditional agriculture sector that in 2004 still accounted for more than 35% of employment. It has a strong and rapidly growing private sector, yet the state still plays a major role in basic industry, banking, transport, and communication. The largest industrial sector is textiles and clothing, which accounts for one-third of industrial employment; it faces stiff competition in international markets with the end of the global quota system. However, other sectors, notably the automotive and electronics industries, are rising in importance within Turkey's export mix. In recent years the economic situation has been marked by erratic economic growth and serious imbalances. Real GNP growth has exceeded 6% in many years, but this strong expansion has been interrupted by sharp declines in output in 1994, 1999, and 2001. Inflation, in recent years in the high double-digit range, fell to 9.3% by 2004 - a 30-year low. Despite these strong economic gains in 2002-04, which were largely due to renewed investor interest in emerging markets, IMF backing, and tighter fiscal policy, the economy is still plagued with high debt and deficits. The public sector fiscal deficit exceeds 6% of GDP - due in large part to the huge burden of interest payments, which accounted for more than 40% of central government spending in 2004, and to populist spending. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Turkey remains low - averaging less than $1 billion annually, but further economic and judicial reforms and prospective EU membership are expected to boost FDI. A major political and economic issue over the next decade is whether or not Turkey will become a member of the EU.
My name is Tolun. If you want to plan a private tour of Turkey you are at the right place, I am an archaeologist and have been working as a tour guide in every corner of Turkey for many years. If you want a special tour of Turkey, I offer my own private tours with my own minivan. I will do my best to make your trip a wonderful experience.
During the Private Istanbul Tour you will have the opportunity to visit Haghia-Sophia - the magnificent Byzantine Church of all times; Blue Mosque - one of the biggest mosques of Istanbul from 17th century architecture; The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts; Hippodrome - the former center of sprotive and political activities.
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CAPITAL CITY OF Turkey: Ankara
