Whole country is going through a huge breakpoint and you keep asking;

"omg is it safe to travel"

"should i cancel?"

"should i visit another time?"

If you are this much scared of visiting, then visit another time ffs!

People are literally fighting for their rights and democracy, you see the news, videos and everything yet you keep asking if it is safe or not.

If you really scared to visit at the moment, then please visit another time. Right now we are fighting for our future, rights and democracy.

Hey reddit,

A friend of mine has been hiking alone in Turkey and we haven't heard from her for 6 days.

A missing person report has already been filed with the police. I am urgently asking for help to spread the word and reach anyone who might have seen her or have information about her whereabouts.

If you have any information, no matter how small, please contact the Turkish police.

Please share this post widely, especially in hiking, travel and local communities in Turkey.

Thank you

I was traveling solo as a woman in Turkey and had a weird hotel experience. As I was asking the worker if he had an iron and ironing board, he randomly placed his hand on my hip and rested it there(male probably around 50ish). I felt very uncomfortable, naturally, and went back to my room, trying to process that weird interaction. Then within minutes he sent me this message via the hotels WhatsApp. The grape emoji especially made me feel weird as it’s a sexual emoji. I checked out a day early because none of it sat right with me. I reported this all to hotels.com and got a refund for the night I left early, then posted this review. Then, the hotel messaged me. Please see attachments and below.

Review: The worker randomly and inappropriately touched my hip while having a hotel related conversation and then sent me a suggestive and uncomfortable message via the hotel’s WhatsApp. I was very uncomfortable and did not feel safe so I left early. I reported this event, and I hope action is being taken. In case it hasn’t been, please avoid staying at this otherwise nice hotel, ESPECIALLY if you’re a solo female traveler.

Rooms 5.0 Service 1.0 Location 5.0

Messages from hotel after seeing my review:

Dear guest, I think there was a wrong agreement. There is no one in our hotel who would behave inappropriately towards you. We apologize for this issue. We kindly ask you to remove your comments on Google. We have refunded your money. Your comment is a shame for people's efforts. No one bothered you at the hotel. You know that too. You chose to leave early of your own accord.

We have spoken with our personnel regarding the issue. He also apologizes to you, but he has not acted with any malicious intent towards you. It was a complete misunderstanding.

We kindly ask you to remove the comment we made on Google. Are you a local guide? Read the previous comments and see that such a thing will not happen in our hotel.

Please don’t be rude. This interaction genuinely made me super uncomfortable. I never leave bad reviews and I’m not out to ruin their reputation, but also, it was weird. I would like to hear y’all’s opinion and perspective please.

I'm not Turkish and only know a little about Turkish history. I'm guessing that this Ataturk against religion? Does anyone know it's origin - political cartoon or official government publication?

Seriously, as i was watching reels in Facebook, I saw this sweet old grampa doing a meat sandwich, but the comments.... are full of insults against him just because of Atatürk's portrait on his cabinet, literally Facebook can translate some of those comments. Was Atatürk treated like Gandhi in India, a embarrassment as a Founder of a Nation.

That image is how I feel rn.

How does one even begin to get started? How back do I have to go in order to understand everything - Seljuk? Huns? Central Asia establishing?

I'm pretty well versed in Ottoman history, but anything before the Osmans is an unexplored territory

Do you guys have some "THE" history books that go through each period in detail? Or at least some kind of internet library where I can find everything I am looking for in one place?

Teşekkürler ederim 🤲🇹🇷

Saw this on r/AnimalsBeingBros in the video of a Turkish Ornithologist speaking to an Owl. It's beyond disgusting and I don't know how any of you deal with it.

The Japanese raped and murdered their way through China, Burma, the Philippines and most of the Pacific throughout WW2 - opened up biological testing centers to test weapons on Chinese civillians. Massed raped, buried them alive, slaughtered and literally ripped foetuses out of pregnant women's wombs.

The British starved millions upon millions of Bengals and Asians to death through their colonial policies and created nearly a dozen famines in the process. The genocide of Algerians by the French, The enormous and brutal colonial genocide of Congolese. The "trail of tears" which was nothing more than a massive genocidal campaign of white Americans against the Natives via Manifest Destiny.

Yet funny enough Reddit and most of the western online internet does not deem it relevant to bring up any of these atrocities when the subject of a video or post is a Japanese, French, British, Belgian, Americans - the people who have the usual slobbering Pavlovian response to mention "Armenians" on anything Turkish, somehow have a bought of amnesia.

What's the reason for this? How do you deal. Knowing about the 5-6 million Ottoman muslims that were also genocided during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s, I don't know how you can't be outraged and disgusted by such a one sided horrific bias.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped.

A few days ago, I posted here about a friend who went missing while hiking in Turkey.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Antalya/s/H2BDYqFvVw

First of all, thank you so much for all the support, shares, messages and condolences. The post was shared around half a million times across different forums, and we managed to find three people who had seen her on the trail just days before she disappeared.

A very special thank you to the Reddit user patient_business_992 who recommended a local tour guide. He mobilized fellow guides and colleagues who spent days searching the mountains, even the most remote and hidden spots. They also sent videos to the family, which was incredibly reassuring. Knowing that people were actually out there looking for her meant a lot.

The family had mobilized everyone possible, including the consulate, police and coast guard. Local volunteers also joined the search.

Sadly, the latest development is that a body has been found. It has not yet been formally identified by the family, who are currently there for identification. Her ID was found with the body, so unfortunately, it seems very likely that it is her. The current assumption is that she fell down a steep slope during a period of very heavy rainfall.

This is an incredibly tragic outcome, and her family and friends will need time to process everything. Thank you also to everyone who has already expressed their sympathy.

I hope there's something others can take away from this: If you go hiking, always let someone know where you're going and take weather forecasts seriously. And if someone goes missing, act immediately. Don't wait. Get local authorities and search teams involved as early as possible.

One final observation: the pictures we shared were genuine, but parts of the accompanying information had been compiled with AI. I was honestly a little shocked by how aggressively some people focused on that, questioned the missing person's name, or accused us of trying to criticize Turkey. At a time when we were genuinely desperate for help, some seemed more interested in picking apart details than helping.

I understand the importance of verifying information, especially nowadays. But perhaps a little empathy and common sense wouldn't hurt either.

Thank you again to everyone who genuinely helped. It meant more than you can imagine.

So I had a short layover in Istanbul and I went out to explore the market in beyoglu.

I went to try the Turkish ice cream. And the guy put the cone in my cleavage(that too not with the stick but with his hand). And I have video proof of it.

I froze. I couldn’t react, I felt helpless, I didn’t say anything. I was weirdly smiling to mask my ‘unable to perceive’ shaken emotions. After leaving that place, it hit me. I was shaken by what just happened.

I felt disgusted, humiliated, angry, sad and more angry at myself for not standing up. I usually have a freeze response in such situations.

It was a short layover so I had to leave the next morning. I’m not in Istanbul currently. My mind is killing me for not doing anything about it and letting him get away with this.

I would do anything to get him to face some kind of consequence for the crime he has committed. Otherwise this regret of not respecting myself by not doing anything will kill me.

I am going to try emailing the tourism police, get this on social media. Not sure if I can visit there so frequently for legal processes.

My questions are-

1. Is it possible for this man to face punishment without me physically having to go there and file a complaint?

2. Will the police take it seriously?

3. Please suggest some tourist pages on social media that I can ask to post the video on to raise awareness.

4. How hectic will the legal procedures be?

5. Any other advice is welcome :)

I would like to support you but I live in Germany and don't know how. Can you perhaps tell me how I can support you?

It’s just plain stupid. Turks are and can be atheists in the same way Americans, Kenyans, and British can be atheists. People who moan about how ridiculous the generalizations their nationalities face can muster this weird question with a conceited smirk, which is the most cringe thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Probably watching too much of Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson burns your brain fibers but if you push your brain a little bit, you would be aware of the idiocy of the very question you asked. If you’re in Turkey, it’s not really hard to be aware that this is not a Sharia-governed country so “being an Atheist should be jail time” is even a weirder conclusion.

he owner at the Turkish place I go to often gave me some, and it was really good

im genuinely curious as to why Turkish citizens need visas after all these years

My great grandfather was an ottoman soldier stationed in Lebanon but he never went back. The story was he fell in love with my Lebanese great grandmother and she didn’t marry him until he memorized the full Quran. Which he did and then they got married and he stayed. the only thing I have of him is his picture. How to find my lineage in Turkey and find my family there. I did a DNA test to confirm this story and found 40% from turkey ancestry. Hence the percentage kept dropping because everyone after married from Lebanon. For example if my dad did the test he would show 60% Turkish ancestry and my grandfather around 80%

Ben bir Türküm. Hollanda’da doğup büyüdüm. Çoğunluğu Hollandalılardan, biraz da Türk, Arap ve Faslılardan oluşan oldukça küçük bir sehirde yaşıyorum.

Neyse. Birçok Hollandalı arkadaşım var. Hollandalı arkadaşlarımla takıldığımda, yaz festivallerine gittiğimde, onlardan farklı (daha “açık”) giyindiğimde, çevremdeki Türkler bana “whitewashed”, “kâfir”, “yolu kaybetmiş” gibi şeyler söylüyor.

Bıktım artık. Evden hiç çıkmamı, sadece Türk arkadaşlarımın olmasını, dışarı hiç gitmememi, kapalı giyinmemi bekliyorlar. Yürüyüşüme, konuşmama, davranışıma her şeye yorum yapıyorlar.

Türkiye’deki akrabalarimi ziyarete gittiğimde, burada tanımadığım Türklerden çok daha az umursadı nasıl giyindiğimi ya da davrandığımı.

Artık gerçekten kaldıramıyorum çünkü buradaki Türkler yasak olan her şeyi yapıyorlar, uyuşturucu satiyorlar, torbacilik, içki içmek, parti, Hollandalı kızlarla yatiyorlar, kadınları taciz vs… Ama konu Türk kızına gelince inanılmaz derecede yargılıyorlar. Resmen iki yüzlü ve riyakarlar. “Namuslu edepli Türk kızı” bekliyorlar ama kendileri Hollandalı kızlarla yatıyorlar.

Dışarıdaki diaspora Türkleri neden böyle? Türkiye’de erkekler de aynı mı?

It's suspicious how several accounts are posting the exact same tweet about Turkey and Epstein, like it’s a coordinated campaign. They claim Turkey was involved in selling children despite zero evidence. How is this their takeaway when the very documents they cite say these children were kidnapped? What’s the real agenda here

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I’m Egyptian and came to Turkey on a scholarship. Before moving, I saw a lot of videos online about racism in Turkey, especially towards Arabs. Since I had already accepted the scholarship and didn’t apply to a university in Egypt, I had no choice but to come here. Honestly, I was expecting the worst.

But my experience has been quite different. In my dorm, the manager treated me kindly, and one student even tried to speak English with me, showing me around and joking about football. When I asked for directions in the city, people who didn’t know English still tried their best to help.

One time I got sick and wasn’t sure if my SGK was active yet. I didn’t have enough money, and my card wasn’t working. Just when I was about to leave the hospital, a man stepped in, paid for me, and even helped translate.

I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist here—it exists everywhere, and I’ll probably encounter it at some point during my five years in Turkey. But what I’ve experienced so far is much less than I expected.

The tag said this is a WW1 souvenir given to families of the fallen at Gallipoli - I am not sure if this is actually antique or something that is still sold today. Google translate is not doing the translation well.

Can anyone help me to figure out where this is from and what this says? Thank you!

This meal in an Ankara Chinese restaurant cost me 1030 tl: $24 USD. When I had looked up the restaurant before I went, the menu said it would be around 60% of that: obviously the old price. But seriously, how are people getting by in this country? This meal would cost me $15 in the US, MAYBE $16…really sad state of affairs…

Ataturk seems very well liked

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