Turkey: The Med at half the price - by Casandra Jardine
Turkey is supposedly the new Greece. It offers similar food, sunshine and beaches but at half the price. Last summer, the high euro meant that Turkey lay at the top of many a holiday wish list, but that wasn’t why I took my family there. We went because my niece was marrying a Turk. Sixteen years ago we had taken our elder two children to Turkey in search of a bucket, spade and classical ruins experience, and had found the coast largely undeveloped. In the interim, tourism has been a major growth industry: resorts that once consisted of a couple of hotels and a lokanta (Turkish for taverna) had turned into great sprawling masses of Lego-brick holiday homes that covered the surrounding hillsides. I gagged when I first saw the transformation, but there’s no point being sentimental – empty beaches are now a rare commodity pretty much anywhere in the Mediterranean.
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