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Golf tourism tees off

Golf tourism is set to increase this year as Turkish courses prepare to challenge Portugal and Spain as golfing destinations.The number if golf enthusiasts is expected to exceed the 232,000 rounds played by golf tourists in 2005, according to the general director of Antalya Golf Club, Ugur Budak.Speaking to the Anatolia news agency, he said course managers predict they will attract annual revenue of €500 million (£335 million) by 2010."Our rivals are Portugal and Spain in Europe in golf tourism," he said."They were quite ahead of us in this sense but now we are...

25-07-2007 - read more...

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Pamuk announces new work

One of Turkey's most famous celebrities, author Orhan Pamuk, has announced that his latest novel is nearly completed, Today's Zaman reports.As the first ever Turkish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, Mr Pamuk is known internationally for his works about Turkish culture.His writing received international acclaim in 1990 with the novel, Kara Kitap (The Black Book), which was set in Istanbul and explored Turkey's Ottoman past and contemporary life. It became one of the most controversial and popular works in Turkish literature and was translated into English.His new book is...

24-07-2007 - read more...

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Turkey triumph in Black Sea Games

Nirvana International - Your reference point for Property in TurkeyTurkey finished the first Black Sea Games in second place after a week of sporting events hosted at the country's Trabzon’s Avni Aker Stadium.The occasion saw 11 Black Sea countries compete in categories such as track and field athletics, archery, gymnastics, swimming, martial arts, football and basketball, with Turkey winning a total of 118 medals, of which 37 were gold.Russia was the overall winner with 86 gold medals, 57 silver and 31 bronze making a total of 174 medals.Trabzon's Mayor Volkan Canalioglu gave the...

09-07-2007 - read more...

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