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İzmir is the best place to cycle in Türkiye, as it’s part of the EuroVelo 8 – a route that crosses 10 Mediterranean countries. In this episode, Euronews’ Cinzia Rizzi takes a bike tour in the Aegean ...

Alex Crevar is a regular contributor to New York Times Travel. For much of its history, Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, was arguably the center of the world. Halfway down the Aegean coast, Smyrna, ...

Authorities in Turkey detained 157 people, including opposition party members and a former mayor of Izmir, early on Tuesday, local media and the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said. The ...

Izmir, Turkey is located about 15 minutes from the city of Izmir, a modern and extremely large city on Turkey's western coast with a population of approximately 5 million people. It is in the center ...

Firefighters are battling wildfires for a second day in Turkey’s Aegean province of Izmir, home to many of the country’s popular tourist resorts and world-famous archaeological sites including Ephesus ...

An elderly man and a forestry worker died on Thursday in wildfires in Turkey, as firefighters battled high winds fanning two blazes in the western province of Izmir, lawmakers said. Turkey, which was ...

Figs like this one, so ripe it's bursting, dangle by the millions along the roadsides near Izmir and Aydin. Feedloader (Clickability) Izmir is to the fig what Bordeaux is to wine. The fruit didn’t ...

Perfectly perched on the northwestern stretch of Turkey's Turquoise Coast and in the heart of the TurkAegean Region, is a beachside destination of lush peaks that's steeped in history and sprinkled ...

Most visitors to the spectacular ruins of Ephesus fly into Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city—and hightail it out of town as fast as possible. Shame on them. And on me. Two years ago, when I wrote the ...

Turkiye has evacuated more than 50,000 residents from 41 settlements in and around its western province of Izmir as firefighters battle wildfires for the second day, according to local authorities.