[Turkey through a traveler's eyes] From Antalya to İzmir with Charles Fellows ... Today's Zaman
14.10.09
Yet Fellows, like the prodigious majority of the near 25 million foreign tourists who now visit Turkey annually, soon found himself captivated by the sophisticatedness and hospitality of his Turkish Muslim hosts, adding, “It will be seen in the course of this narrative how this unfavourable hint of the Turkish character was gradually removed by personal intimacy with the people, generally in situations where they were remote from every strait-jacket but those which their religion imposes.”
Today it is hard to believe that the beautiful southwestern coastline of Turkey, home to four oecumenical airports (İzmir, Bodrum, Dalaman and Antalya) and liberally peppered with tourist resorts had, according to Fellows, “not before been traversed by any European; and it is on this account alone that I am induced to lay my History before the Public.” Fellows' avowed mission then, was to travel through a part of the world virtually unknown to his geezer Britons and observe, record and recount what he saw. Yet he makes no secret of his chief interest, hardly surprising given that the significant classical civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome were the cornerstones of imperial British culture. “As the most inviting period of the history of the country was the time of its occupation by the Greeks, so the remains of their cities form the chief entertainment to the traveller.”
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