Article by Mark Richards
Travel agents and tour operators have a tendency to try to sell each and every corner of the world as though it were a outpost of paradise, but of all the popular holiday destinations Turkey is probably the one that truly does stand out as being unique and in some ways special.
For a start not only is Turkey a country spanning two continents, but the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul (historically Constantinople) itself spans both Europe and Asia, resting as it does on both banks of the Bosphorus river which divides them.
