Blog posts from my travels/backpacking adventures in Turkey
Sanliurfa, or just Urfa as it is commonly known, is far off the tourist trail. It is a multiethnic city with a Turkish, Kurdish and Arab population, 54 km north of the Syrian border at Akçakale, and at least 1,280 km from Istanbul.
It’s probably my favourite city in Turkey.
I took the night ferry from Kyrenia (Girne) to Taşucu. Here is my practical, hands-on guide to taking the Akgünler Denizcilik-operated ferry from Northern Cyprus to Turkey.
How to cross the Ibrahim Khalil border from Turkey to Iraqi Kurdistan.