Izmir World Fair is one of Turkey's most famous festivals held in early September. The fair is organized by İZFAŞ, a dependent corporation of Izmir Municipality. The social & musical events that coincided with the commercial fair had started as an auxiliary activity to attract widespread interest. Still, over time the festival became a school by itself. 

The Ankara Film Festival is a beautiful event held in Turkey’s capital. Each year during March, travelers, film-buffs, directors, and acclaimed actors from across the globe come to Ankara for screenings at venues around the city.

The Festival promoted the competitions in the other categories of cartoon, poster design, and Film Story that support the art of cinema. It hosted a variety of exhibitions of graphic design, photography, and video art. The theoretical, academic, and practical contribution was facilitated, and panels, workshops, and conferences were organized in various fields, including history, sociology, women’s issues, and sector issues within the framework of the Festival.

The most significant event in Turkey’s largest city, the Istanbul Music Festival, lasts about two months, filling June and July with a range of exciting concerts and performances. It offers a selection of European classical music, ballet, opera, and traditional music performances with famous artists worldwide. Tourists will enjoy classical and opera performances, theatrical shows, and classic tunes from regions around the country. 

 Folk dance festivals offer an opportunity to see Turkey’s best dance troupes execute diverse repertoires of Turkish dances in traditional costumes. Numerous flock dances are performed inconsistently to reflect the rich culture from every region. These dances include the Halay from the East and Southeast, Konya and Leziginka, where the Horon dominates the area; the Hore is from Thrace, Zeybek from Aegean, and Bar from Erzurum. Explore the Turkish culture with their entertaining dances to leave your spirits lifted.

First launched in 1986, the Istanbul Jazz Festival is one of the most famous music events in the nation. It is held every July, attracting thousands of revelers from all over the country.

The festival highlights Turkish jazz collectives and brings Turkey's leading pop and best alternative performers. Istanbul Jazz Festival organizes a broad-spectrum event that brings together music lovers and musicians, supports the work of jazz musicians in Turkey, and encourages new productions. 

 Turkey's biggest rock festival, Rock'n Coke, is well worth a trip, especially for music lovers. It was recognized in 2003 and sponsored by Coca Coca-cola.

Rock'n Coke is a tremendous festival held at the Hezarfen Airfield & has famous musicians from all over the world such as Travis, Limp Bizkit, Placebo, Muse, Iggy Pop, Linkin Park, Gogol Bordello, and various others. The festival lasts three days, and there are facilities such as a shopping area, a campground, a funfair, parking next to the stage. 

The spectacular Aspendos international opera and ballet festival, first organized in 1994, is held in September every year in the breathtaking atmosphere of the 2000-year-old Aspendos theater. The opera and ballet festivals are observed annually by approximately 100 thousand art lovers from all over Antalya. The majority of these art audiences are foreign tourists on holiday in the Antalya region.

Aspendos international opera and ballet festival is organized by the General Directorate of State Opera and Ballet of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. And it is one of the most prestigious opera and ballet organizations in the world.

One of the world's seven wonders because of its magical past & present rich history. The ruined city of Ephesus is a true wonder, for it is a place of great historical, cultural, and architectural significance. It was founded in the Classical Greek period, and by the 1st century BC, it had grown into one of the most formidable cities in the region.

The ruined city of Ephesus has been sealed with great ancient treasures like the remains of the giant Temple of Artemis, the great Library of Celsus, a still existing large 25,000 seat amphitheater, the well-preserved temple of Emperor Hadrian, and well looked after Terrace Houses (Houses of Rich). Hence, one of the most important Mediterranean cities mixed great culture, diversity, and civilization. The ruins of Ephesus are a famous tourist attraction on the west coast.

Turkey's most famous beach, Ölüdeniz, is a small village located on the southwest coast of the Aegean Sea. It has an isolated sandy bay at the mouth of Ölüdeniz, on a blue lagoon.

This beach is renowned for its shades of turquoise and remains one of the most stunning beaches on the Mediterranean. Ölüdeniz is also regarded as one of the best places in the world to paraglide due to its unique dramatic aerial views that have fallen off a perfect postcard.

Settled in south-central Turkey, the moonscape region of Cappadocia, southeast of Ankara, is the large, cone-like formations created over time by erosion of the relatively soft volcanic ash around them. The sparsely inhabited landscape of Cappadocia is characterized by red sandstone and salt deposits of the Miocene (Tertiary) period. 

Numerous famous and unique geological features to catch in Cappadocia like; Fairy Chimneys, Göreme Valley National Park and rock churches, underground cities of Kaymakli, Derinkuyu or Ozkonak, Zelve Valley and Pasabag, Avanos with its pottery and carpet production, Uçhisar rock fortress, Ortahisar rock fortress, Ürgüp town, Ihlara valley, Soganli, Sinasos, and Hacibektas and a lot more.

One of the famous Turkish tourist attractions is the breathtaking Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle," famous for its pristine white terraces travertine, a sedimentary rock deposited by water with a very high mineral content from the hot springs. People have bathed in its pools for thousands of years. The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built on top of the hot springs by the kings of Pergamon. 

Tourists and locals visit Pamukkale and Hierapolis frequently for their unique look, ancient history, and wellness. The water is scientifically proven to cure many diseases that attract people. Additionally, there are many thermal hotels in the area.

Topkapı Palace is one of the iconic structures of Istanbul and is famous for being one of the most captivating landscapes that make up Istanbul's skyline. A treasure trove of history on the historical peninsula, located in the oldest historical region of Istanbul.

Topkapı Palace, established on an area of 700,000 square meters on the Eastern Roman acropolis in Sarayburnu, was the administrative, educational and artistic center of the empire for approximately four hundred years from Fatih Sultan Mehmet to the 31st Sultan Abdülmecid, as well as housing the dynasty.

Bodrum Castle, located in the city of Bodrum in southwest Turkey, is one of the world’s best-preserved monuments dating back to the medieval era. It overlooks the internal marina of Bodrum filled with millions of dollars worth of sailing crafts.

The Crusaders built Bodrum Castle in the 15th century as the Castle of St. Peter. The castle now operates as a museum, focusing on the Museum of Underwater Archaeology. The Bodrum Castle is open to the public, and it houses Bodrum’s remarkable Museum of Underwater Archaeology and hosts several Turkish cultural festivals throughout the year.

Nemrut is a 2,134 meter (7,001 ft) high mountain in southeastern Turkey, near the city of Adiyaman. Mount Nemrut's summit funerary mound is scattered with the broken remnants of once mammoth statues, which guarded it. In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built a tomb-sanctuary flanked by giant statues of himself, two lions, two eagles, and various Greek and Persian gods on the mountain top.

The summit of Mount Nemrut delivers a great view of the surrounding mountains. The main attraction is to watch the sunrise from the eastern terrace, which gives the statue heads a beautiful orange hue and adds to the sense of mystery of the place.

 At 12-mile long, Patara is one of the most extended stretches of sandy beach, found anywhere in the Mediterranean. The fine sand on the beach stretches one kilometer inland toward the ancient city. The nearby village of Patara was the birthplace of St Nicholas, the 4th-century Byzantine bishop who later passed into legend as Santa Claus.

Patara Beach is also the breeding ground for the endangered Loggerhead turtle. Patara is ideal for families with small children. There is a café serving beachgoers. You can rent sunbeds and umbrellas on the beach. 

Aspendos boasts one of the well-preserved ancient theatres of antiquity. The theatre of Aspendos was built in 155 AD during the rule of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and could seat between 15,000 and 20,000 spectators. There are remnants of an aqueduct, agora, stadium, and a Byzantine-era basilica, all scattered over the theater's extensive hillside.

Deemed as the finest surviving example of a classical age theater still standing globally, the highly restored, the 15,000-seat theater is one of antiquity's star attractions. It was continuously repaired and maintained to its original qualities up to this day.