As someone who loves to travel — to engage every corner of my world — it makes me sad to see the bum rap that the Muslim faith gets in my corner of the world. ISIS and the Taliban grab headlines. But ...

Turkey is changing fast. And it's modernizing fast. For my vacation this year, I hit the road in Turkey, with romantic memories (a few years old) of horse-drawn carriages and villages with economies ...

Turkey is changing fast. And it’s modernizing fast. For a recent vacation, I hit the road in Turkey, with romantic memories (from my backpacker days) of horse-drawn carriages and villages with ...

I’m in northeastern Turkey, the world’s top hazelnut-producing region and home of the Laz people. It’s located along the Black Sea coast, where it rains 320 days a year. Yet I’m enjoying an ...

Turkey's remote Güzelyurt is a harmony of cultures, history, architecture, and religions. Güzelyurt is the kind of discovery I love to feature in my guidebooks — almost no tourism, lots of history, ...