" LIVING ON A BRIDGE" traveloturc's Profile

Turkey and Istanbul is a bridge between east and west
Bridge of cultures
Bridge of civilisations
Bridge of the history
Bridge of gastronomie (please check my pages about Turkish Cuisine
and many other subjects...

bulgarian church

Turkey is also the motherland of the civilisations
motherland of mythologie and motherland of Christianity
Please check also my Turkey pages for the details of
Biblical sites in Turkiye...

mixture of cultures

Paleolithic Age (Early Stone Age) 60,0000 - 10,000 B.C.
Mesolithic Age (Mid Stone Age) 10,000 - 8,500 B.C.
Neolithic Age (Late Stone Age) 8,500 - 5,000 B.C.
Calcolithic Age (Copper Age) 5,000 - 3,000 B.C.
Bronze Age 3,000 - 2,000 B.C.
Hatti Civilization 2,500 - 2,000 B.C.
Troy - II Settlement 2,500 - 2,000 B.C.
Hatti and Hittite Principalities Period 2,000 - 1,750 B.C.
Great Hittite Kingdom 1,750 - 1,200 B.C.
Hurri Civilization
Troy - VI Civilization 1,800 - 1,275 B.C.
Aegean Migration and Invasion From Balkans 1,200 B.C.
The Anatolian Principalities during the Iron Age 1,200 - 700 B.C.
Urartu Civilization 900 - 600 B.C.
The Civilization of Phrygia 750 - 300 B.C.
Lydia, Caria and Lycia Civilizations 700 - 300 B.C.
Ionian Civilization 1,050 - 300 B.C.
Persian Conquest 545 - 333 B.C.
Hellenistic And Roman Age 333 B.C. - 395 A.D.
Byzantine Civilization 330 - 1453 A.D.
Seljuk Civilization 1071 - 1300 A.D.
Ottomans 1299 - 1923 A.D.
The Turkish Republic 1923 -

kuleli military school in 1897

I am born and raised in this magical city of Istanbul.Due to my profession I ve had the chances to visit the half of the world and even the smallest villages of my country.I will try to find my old photos and I wiill try to share my knowledge with the people around the world .On the other hand I try to increase my knowledge and my experiences with the help of the comments of VT people.I am aware that it will be difficult to express myself with a language which is not your mother tongue but anyway I will try to write my feelings and memories.
Now I am a retired man and I am planning to realize a world tour with car .Maybe this is a dream and I will never have the chances to realize it ...nevermind.... even dreaming is a good motivation to start.
I am sure that your comments will lead me to find the right way ...

kuleli after a century from my balcony

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
There's too many places I haven't seen
And if I stayed here with you, now
Things just wouldn't be the same
Well I'm as free as a bird now,
And a bird you can not change.
And a bird you can not change.
And a bird you can not change.
Lord knows I can't change

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Free bird from Lynyrd Skynrd

my itinarary

I ve recently finish my Ayvalik and Yalova pages ...Please take a look and give your comments:

Ayvalik page
Yalova page

Africa

AFRICA

ALGERIA El Djazaïr La Blanche

COTE D'IVOIRE Abidjan The door of Africa

MOROCCO Tangier Watching Europe

AMERICA

USA
Newyork -Los Angeles -Palm Springs -Palm Desert
Chicago
Detroit
Las Vegas
Miami-Orlando -Atlantic city

ASIA

AZERBAIJAN
Baki windy Caspian city-Sumquayit

CHINA
Beijing-Shanghai

GEORGIA
T’blisi Georgia on my mind.

ISRAEL
Jerusalem
Telaviv -Yafo -Haifa- Akko -Netanya -Nazareth -Tiberias-Megiddo-Massada

KAZAKHSTAN Almaty Apple Land

KUWAIT
Al Kuwait

KYGRGIZISTAN Bishkek Home Land

PALESTINE
Bettlehem -Jerihco

TURKMENISTAN Ashghabat City of love

UZBEKISTAN
Tashkent A stop in silk road
Samarkand Crossroad of Cultures

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA
Sydney Down under
Perth Go Aussies !!!

moskow

EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Wien-Graz -Inssbruck -Klagenfurt

BELGIUM
Bruxxelles
Liege-Brugges

BOSNIA
Sarajevo

BULGARIA
Sofiya
Varna -Burgas-Ruse -Haskova -Pazardzik

CROATIA
Zagreb
Dubrovnik
Split 1 Dalmatian
Rijeka
Zadar

CYPRUS
Girne -Lefkosa -Magosa

CZECH REPUBLIC
Praha

FRANCE
Paris
Lyon
Strasbourg
Le Mans-Nancy -Thonon -Chamonix -Nice -Cannes
Duppigheim
Molsheim
Barr
Obernai
Colmar
Requiwhir
Ribeauville
Eguisheim
Munster
Rouffach
Wintzenheim
Nantes-Bordeaux-Antibes

GERMANY
Munchen
Koln-Frankfurt -Stuttgard -Dusseldorf-Aachen -Fulda-Berlin-Hamburg
Düren

GREAT BRITAIN
London -Edingburgh -Brighton -Portsmouth-Southamptom -Bristol -Cardiff
Plymouth -York

GREECE
Thessaloniki
Kavala -Katerini -Larisa -Ioninna -Igoumenitsa -Komotini -Trikala

HUNGARY
Budapest
Szeget -Szolnok -Debrecen-Balaton

ITALY
Roma-Milano -Napoli -Torino -Genoa -Bologna -Firenze -Bari
Venezia
Padova
Trieste -Ancona -Aosta -Brindisi-Como -Pisa -Rimini-Portofino

KOSOVO
Pristina

LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

MACEDONIA
Skopje
Gevgelija

MONACO
Monaco-Monte carlo

MONTENEGRO
Budva-Herceg Novi

NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam
Eindhoven

POLAND
Warsaw
Lutz -Gdansk

ROMANIA
Bucharest
Cluj Napoka
Oradea
Brasow -Giurgiu

RUSSIA
Moskow
Sankt Petersburg
Chelyabinsk
Nijhny Novgorod
Magnitogorsk
Miass

SAN MARINO
San marino

SERBIA
Belgrade
Nis -Novi sad

SLOVAKIA
Bratislawa

SLOVENIA
Ljublijana-Maribor

SWITZERLAND
Zurich
Geneva
Basel
Lausanne
Winterthour-Lugano -Aarau -Montreux-Pully -Vevey

SPAIN
Madrid
Barcelona
Valencia -Sevilla -Algeciras -Marbella -Cordoba -Toledo-San sebastian
Guijon-A Coruna-Almeria-Alicante

UKRAINE
Kiev
Lviv -Jalta -Simferopol

TURKIYE
all (81) cities

VATICAN
Vatican