San Diego Union Tribune — (Latitudes and Attitudes)

My wife and I recently returned from a wonderfully interesting 18-day tour of Turkey with Bora Özkök’s Cultural Folk Tours International. We traveled in a comfortable, air-conditioned bus throughout all but the very easternmost regions of Turkey. The beautiful countryside, mountains, Mediterranean seashore and the food were beyond our expectations. The city of Istanbul is a sightseer’s heaven, with its location on the Bosporus, straddling the continents of Europe and Asia – and its innumerable mosques reflecting the Islamic heritage of the Ottoman Empire. But, perhaps the most noteworthy subjects for us were the archaeological sites, remnants of ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine times. They are so numerous and ubiquitous that a day didn’t pass without our visiting three or four sites. It is Bora’s custom to use only five-star hotels, and we found them to be nearly always up to that standard.
-Robert A. Rockstein, San Diego, CA

We will certainly recommend Bora’s tour to any of our friends who wish to visit Turkey. We felt the tour offered “very good value for money” (even in Canadian dollars), and we learned a great deal about the country, its history and its people. It’s a wonderful, educational and cultural experience, not just a holiday, and this aspect – in our view – merits a very high recommendation.
-Anastasia Shkilnyk and Jim Kingham, CANADA