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What's New
For this new edition of Discover Turkey, our authors have
hunted down the fresh, the transformed, the hot and the
happening. These are some of our favourites. For up-to-
the-minute recommendations, see
lonelyplanet.com/tur-
key
.
1 AYA SOFYA
The 17-year restoration of the world's greatest Byzantine edifice, İstanbul's Aya Sofya, has
finished to rapturous applause, and nearby Ayasofya Hürrem Sultan Hamamı has reopened
after a US$13 million restoration. (
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and
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)
2 GÖBEKLI TEPE
Their fame was a long time coming (about 12,000 years), but Şanlıurfa's Neolithic mega-
liths featured on a
National Geographic
cover in 2011.
3 CULINARY İSTANBUL
İstanbul has bolstered its gastronomic offering with culinary walks led by food bloggers,
coffee workshops at the Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts, and new Ottoman restaurant
Matbah.
( 212-514 6151;
www.matbahrestaurant.com
;
Ottoman Imperial Hotel, Caferiye Sokak 6/1;
mezes
"
10-22, mains
"
28-48;
lunch & dinner;
Sultanahmet)
4 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Improvements at historic sites include Boğazkale Museum's Hittite sphinxes, returned from
Berlin and İstanbul, the cable car to Pergamum acropolis and Seljuk's Ayasuluk Fortress,
reopened after a 20-year excavation.
5 KAÇKAR MOUNTAINS (KAÇKAR DAĞLARI)
On the range's southern side, day walks have been marked around the villages and a new
package with East Turkey Expeditions makes summiting Mt Kaçkar affordable for inde-
pendent travellers.
6 İSTANBUL
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