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TODAY'S ZAMAN :: Travel
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TODAY'S ZAMAN
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Introducing İstanbul’s newest museums
 A few weeks ago the Museum of Innocence, novelist Orhan Pamuk’s private museum in Çukurcuma, finally opened to great fanfare.
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Van: In the wake of the quake
 The effects of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that rocked the Lake Van region in October 2011, and the lesser but similarly devastating quake that struck early the next month, were first brought home to me the morning after my arrival in the provincial capital of Van.
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Escaping the İstanbul heat -- Yalova and Karamürsel
 It may only be May but already the mercury is rising and things can only get hotter. So if you’re in Ä°stanbul for a week or so and are starting to feel desperate to escape the heat I recommend a quick flit across the Sea of Marmara to Yalova or rather to the nearby thermal resort in a nearby village called Termal.
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From the Tigris to Diyarbakır and Doğubeyazıt
 The Tigris west of the spectacular but dam-blighted ancient settlement of Hasankeyf flows swiftly down a beautiful stretch of cliff-lined valley, particularly pretty in the soft, early-morning light -- even when viewed through the dusty windows of the Hasankeyf Belediyesi (municipality) minibus taking locals into the nearby boom town of Batman to work and shop.
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The road to Eskişehir: İnegöl and Yenişehir
 How far would you go to eat Ä°negöl köfte? Well, if you’re living in Ä°stanbul, probably not all the way to the Ä°negöl of its birth, but what say you were driving from Bursa to EskiÅŸehir or from Ä°znik to Kütahya and wanted somewhere to break your journey?
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Across the Tigris: from Cizre to Diyarbakır
 Travelling between the snow-rimmed shores of Lake Van and the remote mountaintop town of Şırnak, I’d bumped into a seemingly never-ending supply of theology students.
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A wall-walker’s guide to Turkey
 When thinking of cities enclosed by walls, Turkey is not necessarily the country that most readily springs to mind, with the one great exception of Ä°stanbul where from Byzantine times onwards, huge walls wrapped themselves around what was first Byzantium and then Constantinople. But in actual fact, Turkey is home to several once-walled cities even though later development sometimes manages to obscure that fact.
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Riding to the Tigris: Lake Van to Cizre
 Apologies to the inimitable Freya Stark for pinching the title of one of her classic travel books for this feature.
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Peace and beauty in a place of misery Gallipoli
 As dawn breaks this coming Wednesday an eerie quiet will settle over the Gallipoli peninsula as a huge crowd of visiting Australians and New Zealanders prepare to remember those of their ancestors who lost their lives there in 1915 during the course of a particularly ill-judged episode of World War I.
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A place that belongs to neither east nor west: Beirut
 When my plane landed at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, I was thinking of the song by Fairouz, “Le Beirut.” At one point in that song, the lyrics are, “Oh Beirut, anyone that abandons you is crazy!”
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