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Rick's Guidebooks
- Rick Steves' Istanbul: See updates for the latest edition
Planning Resources
- Istanbul: Recommended Reading and Viewing
- SRM Travel: ETBD guides Lale Surmen & Tankut Aran lead tours of their home country: Turkey
- Melitour: Mehlika Seval, a former ETBD Turkey guide, leads her own tours in Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia
Read Articles
Listen to Radio Interviews
- Aegean Turkey (18 min)
- Armenians, Kurds, and the EU (28 min)
- Ataturk and Modern Turkey (7 min)
- Beyond Turkey: Armenia (36 min)
- Eastern Turkey (19 min)
- Footsteps of St. Paul (21 min)
- Islam in Turkey: Rumi (18 min)
- Istanbul Backstreets (32 min)
- Istanbul By Night (18 min)
- Istanbul City Guide (12 min)
- Outsiders in the Muslim World (49 min)
- Turkey: Beyond Istanbul (45 min)
- Turkey: Today's Republic (36 min)
- Turkey Travel Tips I (18 min)
- Turkey Travel Tips II (47 min)
- Turkish Wedding Traditions (16 min)
Watch Video Clips
- Cappadocia, Turkey: Customs and Countryside
- Cayirbag, Turkey: Hay, Ducks and Dung
- Erzurum, Turkey: Oil Wrestling
- Istanbul, Turkey: The Topkapı Palace
- Istanbul, Turkey: The Blue Mosque
- Istanbul, Turkey: Hagia Sophia
- Istanbul, Turkey: Grand Bazaar
- Istanbul, Turkey: Golden Horn and Bosphorus
- Istanbul, Turkey: Cosmopolitan New Town
- Istanbul, Turkey: Enjoying a Turkish Bath
- Konya, Turkey: Work-a-Day Life and Whirling Dervishes
- Selcuk, Turkey: The Ancient City of Ephesus

