Sources
Sources, credits & image licences
Come Türkiye is built from public indexes, open data and original writing. This page records the main sources and image credits.
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This guide covers all 81 provinces, the World Heritage sites, local food, transport, emergency numbers and the small details that make a trip easier. It is written for foreign visitors and built from public records, official indexes and original research.
Opening hours, prices and transport change. Confirm details with the official venue before you go.
Sources: Sources & credits
Data sources
Türkiye Culture Portal (Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı), UNESCO World Heritage Centre, OpenStreetMap contributors, DHMİ airport data, GoTürkiye destination index and public provincial tourism directories.
Image credits
Photographs are used under their respective Wikimedia Commons licences. Each image is credited with its author and licence below. If an image has been credited incorrectly, contact us and we will correct or remove it.
Aphrodisias · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Archaeological Site of Ani · Engin Tavlı
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Archaeological Site of Troy · CherryX
CC BY-SA 3.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Arslantepe Mound · Zeynel Cebeci
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire · Kumkum
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
City of Safranbolu · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape · Brian Dell
Public domain · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Ephesus · Benh LIEU SONG
CC BY-SA 3.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Göbekli Tepe · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Gordion · Gordion Archive, Penn Museum
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia · Hans
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği · Mxcil
CC BY-SA 3.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Hierapolis-Pamukkale · Lemon tart
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Historic Areas of Istanbul · please put the following link as a backlink in your article: Istanbul Tipps, Picture by Selda Yildiz and Erol Gülsen.
CC BY-SA 3.0 de · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Nemrut Dağ · m wrona maciek_wrona
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük · Murat Özsoy 1958
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape · Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex · rob Stoeltje from loenen, netherlands
CC BY 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia · Dosseman
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Xanthos-Letoon · Jona Lendering
CC0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Adana · Onur Genes onurgenes
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Adıyaman · m wrona maciek_wrona
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Afyonkarahisar · Afurkanakin
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ağrı · Volcanicaa
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Aksaray · Kharkil
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Amasya · Szgin
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ankara · Gordion Archive, Penn Museum
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Antalya · Cobija
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ardahan · Redlabubu
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Artvin · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Aydın · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Balıkesir · Hustle77
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Bartın · Rleneromero
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Batman · Zorka Sojka
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bayburt · Ben Bender
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Bilecik · Samet Berber
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Bingöl · Bingolll
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Bitlis · See above
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Bolu · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Burdur · Kesim00
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bursa · Kumkum
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Çanakkale · CherryX
CC BY-SA 3.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Çankırı · XperfectTR
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Çorum · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Denizli · Lemon tart
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Diyarbakır · Brian Dell
Public domain · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Düzce · Murat Özsoy 1958
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Edirne · rob Stoeltje from loenen, netherlands
CC BY 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Elazığ · Taha Koçak
CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Erzincan · Mehmetaergun
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Erzurum · Zeynel Cebeci
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Eskişehir · BSRF
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Gaziantep · Klaus-Peter Simon
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Giresun · Akrbgll
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Gümüşhane · En Merker
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Hakkari · MrDoğukan
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Hatay · Belentarafsizhaber
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Iğdır · Sabri76
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Isparta · Isparta at Turkish Wikipedia
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
İstanbul · Hunanuk
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
İzmir · Benh LIEU SONG
CC BY-SA 3.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Kahramanmaraş · Gokhan Oksuzoglu skykhan
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Karabük · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Karaman · Dosseman
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Kars · Engin Tavlı
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Kastamonu · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kayseri · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Kilis · Brian Dell
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Kırıkkale · SAİT71
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Kırklareli · User:Darwinek
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Kırşehir · Tevfik Teker
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Kocaeli · Kocaeligönüllüsü
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Konya · Murat Özsoy 1958
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Kütahya · Unknown authorUnknown author
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Malatya · Zeynel Cebeci
CC BY-SA 4.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Manisa · Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
CC BY-SA 2.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Mardin · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mersin · Mersin Page
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Muğla · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Muş · Dosseman
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Nevşehir · Hans
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Niğde · Dosseman
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Ordu · Ars Borsiov
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Osmaniye · Klaus-Peter Simon
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Rize · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sakarya · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Samsun · Cobija
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Şanlıurfa · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Siirt · Dûrzan Cîrano
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Sinop · Peter Fitzgerald
CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Sivas · Mxcil
CC BY-SA 3.0 · UNESCO / Wikimedia Commons
Şırnak · Zmangeldi
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Tekirdağ · Sinan Şahin
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Tokat · Lubunya
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Trabzon · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tunceli · Dûrzan Cîrano
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Uşak · Hamdigumus
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Van · W. Bulach
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Yalova · Kesim00
CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yozgat · AHMET AKGÜL
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
Zonguldak · İncelemeelemani
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia
alacati · OscarKosy
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
alsancak · Inanç Bardakçıoğlu (IBausK at de.wikipedia)
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ayder · Dr. Zeynel Cebeci
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
balat · Jwslubbock
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
bebek · derivative work: Fossa?! Besiktas_mahalleler.png: The original uploader was Vikiyazar at Turkish Wikipedia.
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
besiktas · Matti Blume
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
bodrum-marina · Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium
CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
bozcaada-merkez · Nevit Dilmen (talk)
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
cesme-merkez · Elelicht
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
cihangir · Esme Vos from San Francisco and Amsterdam, Netherlands
CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
cunda-alibey-adasi · Magurale
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
datca · Ostique
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
fethiye · Nikodem Nijaki
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
foca · Michael ksk
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
goreme · Giorgio Galeotti
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
kadikoy · Ail Subway
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
kaleici · reyhan_kahraman@hotm…
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
kalkan · Mustafa yumrutaş
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
karakoy · User:Bernd Hüttemann
CC BY-SA 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
kas-merkez · Tutku Çetinel
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
kizilay · LoudHmen
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
konyaalti · Sharon Hahn Darlin
CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
kusadasi-marina · Zeynel Cebeci
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
lara · Anton Nikiforov
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
marmaris-marina · Bir_Ege_Hikayesi ©
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
moda · bynyalcin
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
oludeniz · Godot13
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
olympos · Hilmi Ayhan
CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
ortakoy · Blue cab
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
side · Saffron Blaze
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
sirince · Ahmet Tuna Yesilyayl…
CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
sultanahmet
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
uzungol · İhsan Deniz Kılıçoğlu
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kekova · JamesDavidShoots
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Myra · Saffron Blaze
CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olympos · Capyusuf
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Patara · William Neuheisel from DC, US
CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Phaselis · Dosseman
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
St. Nicholas Church · Dosseman
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Termessos · Ilkerulker
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Some district and heritage summaries are adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each page links to the source article. Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL); the credit list above is maintained with each image.
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All explanatory prose on Come Türkiye is original. We use public records for facts, names and links; we do not reproduce museum, tourism-board or guidebook descriptions. Data was last reviewed in October 2026.
This guide is provided for general trip planning. We do not guarantee that every detail is current or complete, and we are not liable for decisions or losses based on it. Always confirm visas, tickets, opening hours, agency licences and local services with the official source.
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