Best places: Things to dos in Turkey

Colonnaded tomb for the former president, Kemal Ataturk, with a marble hall, turrets & museum.

Ornate 16th-century mosque with gardens, plus a terrace with views over the Golden Horn.

Vast, ornate mosque built in 1399 in Seljuk style, with 20 domes & 2 towering minarets.

Huge seaside arch commemorating soldiers who participated in the Battle of Gallipoli during WWI.

👍 A very well-kept memorial. Nevertheless I would have liked more information about historical facts.

Baroque Ottoman mosque with towering minarets, founded in the 1300s & rebuilt in the 1850s.

Grand religious structure with domes, 4 minarets & colonnades, plus soaring prayer halls.

Final resting place of the first Ottoman sultan, in a reconstructed Byzantine building on a hilltop.

👍👍 It was an honour for me to come to the grave of a great human. I am thankful to Allah Almighty that I was able to come here. Feel so much pleased to spend some time here. My hotel was in sirkeci and it took only 15 minutes to reach here through Marmaray.

👍👍 Follow the road and stop at all its monuments, cemeteries and mausoleums to understand the history.

16th-century mosque with slender minarets & a large dome, plus vistas of the Golden Horn estuary.

👍👍 Eşrefoğlu Mosque is a 13th-century mosque. On 15 April 2011 the mosque was included in the list of World Heritage tentative list. The justification statements is "Esrefoglu Mosque includes all the main elements of early Anatolian Turkish architecture. The building is the biggest, best preserved wood...

Ornate, brick mosque complex known as the burial place of Islamic mystic Üftade, who died in 1580.

With its 1,100-m depth, the canyon is home to an outdoor sports festival in a lush national park.

Museum exhibiting weaponry & artifacts from war of independence in imposing, 2-story stone building.

👍 Very old mosque

Tomb of the 16th-century Islamic scholar, including a pastel green room adorned with chandeliers.

Turkish memorial site in a tranquil, verdant setting featuring dramatic sculptures & monuments.

👍👍 A canyon of amazing beauty. The height of the mountains and the view of the canyon are impressive in their scale. The excursion itself contains, in addition to viewing the canyon, rafting, zipping, fishing and of course a good lunch. It is advisable to have a waterproof phone case and appropriate s...