The Turkish Travel Blog
Destination guides, food, culture and expat living across Turkey.
About The Turkish Travel Blog
The Turkish Travel Blog was launched in 2010 by freelance travel writer Natalie Sayin, who lives and works in Turkey. The site concentrates on destinations across the country, with coverage of food, culture, history, lifestyle and expat living. The public site contains more than 300 pages and roughly 310 posts spanning the last decade, and it attracts around a thousand readers a day and a large social following. The blog also acts as part of the Turkey Travel Promotors company and offers commercial services. Posts rely on illustrated, photography-rich guides and first-person local reporting.
If Turkey could be read like a single-minded local guidebook, Natalie’s blog would be it. The writing is personal and detail-driven, with lived-in anecdotes - for example she notes living six months in Kusadasi and peppers posts with neighborhood tips, historical background and specific landmarks like Pigeon Island and the Öküz Mehmed Pasha caravanserai. The tone is conversational and practical rather than flashy, and articles are longform enough to plan a visit. Photo-led pages make the places feel familiar, and the site doubles as a media arm for promotion work, so readers get both travel stories and hands-on destination information.
Where They Travel
turkey
Pros
- Detailed, local-first destination guides
- Strong focus on Turkish food and culture
- Illustrated posts with original photos
- Offers expat and practical living advice
Cons
- Pages contain Google AdSense ads
- Updates are infrequent, rare new posts
- Very little embedded video content
How Popular Is The Turkish Travel Blog?
- Majestic Million rank636,205
- Open PageRank3.5 / 10
- Best-of lists2