Turkish Constitutional Court is reported ruling in effect that sale of Turkish real estate to foreigners is disallowed; market in turmoil.

Byron Ayanoğlu, food critic, writer and chef, stays in Bitez, near the beach, in the southwestern Bodrum peninsula. He likes to swim all winter, “except when the air is too cold to come out of the water,” he said…

With incomparable views of Bodrum Harbor and the historical Bodrum Castle, Marina Yacht Club has become one of the most popular venues in Bodrum. As one of the few enterprises that remains open 12 months of the year, its restaurants, bars, and high-quality service have earned it the status of one of Bodrum’s Classics.   Marina […]

An exhibition of famous Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis’ maps has been opened in Bodrum. The exhibiton at the Milta Bodrum Marina Ottoman Shipyard can be visited until July 23.

Because of the unseasonably warm and sunny weather in the past few weeks in Bodrum, flowers have bloomed in the fields and almond trees have blossomed in some villages.

In 1927, when Bodrum was a small fishing, sponge diving and agricultural village with a population of 4902, a writer named Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli arrived to serve his sentence of exile under fortress arrest in the Bodrum Castle. Allowed freedom of the town by local authorities he fell under …