This country is plain weirdness, and the history of the cave-dwelling communities of Cappadocia is as peculiar as the landscape itself. The place bears a resemblance to the Badlands or parts of Utah; ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. While Turkiye — the nation formerly known as Turkey — is full of remarkable sites, its Cappadocia region ...

Where are you going this year? As journeys for a yearly sojourn start taking shape, consider Asia Minor. The climate mirrors our own Southern California weather, with mild winters and hotter summers, ...

On the high plateau of central Anatolia in Turkey, magic can seem real. What else but enchantment could shape rock and stone into spindly stems that rise, mushroom-like, out of the earth? How could ...

Some hotels merely serve as a place to lay your head while traveling — fading from memory by the time you start the journey home. Others are so special and sublime that they make you consider ...

Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads ...

A rich palette of shimmering caramel swirls, ochers, creams and pinks unfolds across the landscape like an enormous handwoven carpet. Stands of poplars line paths carved by ancient lava flows from ...

Turkey has some of the oldest ruins of ancient civilizations — Stone Age sites, Greek and Roman temples, historic Ephesus — which offer sharp contrast to deluxe modern resort hotels. Majestic ...

Turkey’s one of the popular tourist attractions fairy chimneys in the Cappadocia region, damaged by spray paint are being cleaned by 'micro sandblasting' technique. “We have started a work in the ...