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"Get Turkey Cycling" campaign funded through the European Union aims to promote urban bicycle usage Turkey, with cycle lanes of 1,048 kilometers in length across 17 cities, will undertake its first promotional campaign - "Get Turkey Cycling!" with a European Union (EU) fund that aims to encourage bicycle usage in urban...

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With a 22 percent increase in the number of tourists in 2018, Turkey registered the highest increase in the number of foreign arrivals among 33 European countries, according to a report by the European Travel Commission Turkey was the top performing tourist destination in 2018 and recorded the highest growth in...

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Spice Bazaar, Istanbul The famously known Spice Bazaar among tourists, the large covered bazaar got its name "Mısır Çarşısı" (Egyptian Bazaar) when it was built in 1660 in the city's busy Eminönü quarter because the taxes were collected from Cairo. Additional names were also given to the bazaar like "Valide Çarşısı"...

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The public hammam is still a major part of Turkish culture, a spa of sorts for both cleansing and relaxing. Here's a roadmap to enjoying a Turkish bath in the traditional way: Historians don’t know exactly when people started to bathe indoors. But we do know that the Ottoman Turks inherited...

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