{"id":43871,"date":"2011-09-16T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=43871"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:38:22","slug":"turkeys-diverse-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/09\/16\/turkeys-diverse-attractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Diverse Attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those looking for an exotic and remarkable vacation can do no better than Turkey. The country is so large that nearly every climate a vacationer could want is available. Whether you want to shop, experience culinary delights, or swim in tropical waters at a beach resort, Turkey has it all. It also has gorgeous scenery and some of the most historic sites you can visit on this planet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43875\" title=\"slide_189576_360904_large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/slide_189576_360904_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/slide_189576_360904_large.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/slide_189576_360904_large-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite, this many people don&#8217;t realize that Turkey has all that it has to offer. Or, if they do, they hold certain beliefs because the country is predominantly Muslim &#8212; perhaps they heard news stories about Israel and the tensions with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Turkey has some of the earliest advanced civilizations known to man. Hacilar and Catalhoyuk date to between 7,000-6,000 B.C. Also, Turkey has had equality for women going back many millennia. In fact, Turkey gave women the right to vote before most European countries and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, Turkey has no national religion. They also have no sanctions against religions other than Islam. They are a Democracy with full religious freedom. They are one of the oldest democracies in the region.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are looking for a vacation you won&#8217;t soon forget, in one of the world&#8217;s oldest civilizations, consider a trip to Turkey. There are delights waiting for you there guaranteed to last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>via https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/photos-visiting-beautiful_b_962242#s360904&amp;title=Tetrapylon_at_Aphrodisias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those looking for an exotic and remarkable vacation can do no better than Turkey. The country is so large that nearly every climate a vacationer could want is available. Whether you want to shop, experience culinary delights, or swim in tropical waters at a beach resort, Turkey has it all. It also has gorgeous scenery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":43875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}