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Probably the best country I've been. Had a bit of a culture shock initially walking down the street in Edirne.
The food there is amazing, the choice and price, can fill up on ice cream, patiserrie food, pizza, kebab, uighur noodles very cheaply, nice breakfast restaurants too featuring filoux pastry, bakery goods.
Turks are very hospitable, I got practically adopted in a town in Antalya for the day, and I'm a 31 year old man.
Turkish men are macho and sit outside cafes/bars but aren't as macho as Albanians.
Most Turks are nice though and helpful.
There are some amazing greek/roman city ruins in Antalya that you can see for like £5 in total including local transportation. hotels in isparta was like £9 a night, had an ensuite and the furniture was all new, ac too.
Istanbul and Edirne had some interesting museums in it like the Turkish military museum in Istanbul. There's also a big Greek orthodox cemetery in Istanbul, I tried going into the adjoining armenian cemetery but got rejected for not being Armenian.
There are cats everywhere.
I saw some statues and material about the military coup, an ablution reconstruction near one of the main admin buildings in Istanbul. I saw some refugees in a few of the parks but they seemed to just be homeless and there was plenty of turkish museum guards around.
One turkish museum guard hugged me and wished me a happy journey the day before i left for greece.
All in all, probably my favourite 2 week country. dirt cheap currently too.
It seemed a very family centred place.