Teaming up on Turkey

Underground city near Kapadokia.

Rooms extend to 8 stories underground

Turkish insect

A tasty snack

Björk conecrt in Istanbul

Shisha boy in Istanbul

Shisha and backgammon

Mosque in Istanbul

Fishing in the Golden Horn, Istanbul

The New Mosque, Istanbul

One of Turkey's million stray cats

The New Mosque, Istanbul

The Golden Horn with the Taksim district behind

Outdoor dining

The Bosphorus, Istanbul

Aya Sophia Mosque, Istanbul

Aya Sophia

Aya Sophia, which was a church before being converted.

Aya Sophia

The Blue Mosque, Istanbul

The Blue Mosque

Lessons in the Blue Mosque

The Blue Mosque

Photo shoot in Kapadokia

Dwellings built into the rock in Kapadokia

Paintings inside the dug out rooms in the hills

Kapadokia

The Whirling Dervishes of Konya

Castle in the rock

Caravan Serai, a resting place for travelers in the distant past

Market in Konya

Konya

Konya

Women relaxing in massage chairs at a roadside rest

Mountains near the south coast

Cerili

Olympos

Fires of Chimaera, gas spontaneously escapes and

burns continuously from the rock here

Baby turtle as it makes struggles towards the water from the egg

Baby turtle reaching the sea for the first time

Grown turtle crossing the highway

Beach at Kabak

In search of the illusive waterfall

Bodrum

Bodrum

Efesus, once a city of 200,000

Testing the facilities

The former library

The arena which once seated 28,000

Models of the boats being constructed in Urla

The real thing, which will be rowed and sailed to France

Turkish delights!

A relaxing view

A reconstructed olive crusher

Olive oil press

The olives are placed into the bags before pressing

Then the oil is separated in the pits behind

And transported around the Mediterranean in these

On boats like this one

Another replica built there

Watermelons, mmmmmmmmmmm....

Bakery in Urla

The boat 6 months from completion

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul

Turkish lamps

Turkish delights

Tea

Istanbul by night

The Sultan's Palace

Turkey is a land of extreme diversity, with Europe lapping the west and Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia and Georgia surrounding the east, the political, social and economic effects can be felt and seen throughout the country. These forces combine to make it exceedingly difficult to reach consensus on anything. At the same time this has created a melting pot of cultures, ideas, ideals and people that leeds to conversation long into the night. Two weeks is not enough to put it into words, so the pictures tell the tail of a land that bridges all these realities into one exceptionally warm and friendly country.