How safe is Turkey?

eulB_x

We're considering going to Turkey for two weeks but I'm weary of the safety side of things with the current political problems as well as previous terrorist attacks.

We'd be going to Kusadasi. I'd appreciate your thoughts/experiences..

Thanks!

Dermondo

Hi, ive been to Kusadasi with my partner about 3 years ago, to be honest we found it fine and really no different from any other typical summer holiday destination we've been to, people are very friendly and the food/drink is cheap enough, that was in '08 though.

Overall we had a great holiday and if you are near ladies beach do go as its a fab beach.

One note to bear in mind, maybe not recommeded for ladies to walk around unacompanied, not that we had any negative experiences it was that we were advised of this.

boreduser

I went to Turkey last year and it was the same as any other sun holiday I was on. Besides the fact that they are a little aggressive in their sales techniques at markets there is nothing else to worry about.

safer than Dublin.

Carpenter

I go there every year and in all the time,s I have being there never have I seen any trouble.
And you will get used to the shop keepers after all they need to make a living as well

http://forum.kusadasi.biz/

I have put up this link a few times and it help,s people a lot

Soups123

How safe is Turkey? Grand once cooked through

mikedragon32

Soups123 wrote: »

How safe is Turkey? Grand once cooked through

Deleted User wrote:

safer than Dublin.

Oh how clever! If only this was AH.

If you have nothing constructive to add to the discussion, please don't bother posting here.

Hello?
I've been to Turkey about 6 times in the last year and would regard it safer than Dublin.

Ok theres been the odd bomb in kusadasi and istanbul but thats about as risky percentage wise as your plane crashing in my considered opinion.
I haven't cancelled madrid or London or Belfast due to Bombs either.

Cork boy 55

saw this on BBC website a few weeks ago
very sad and scary story


Three young Russian women have died and others are in hospital after drinking poisoned alcohol on a yacht in Turkey, Russian and Turkish media report.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13633313

Beruthiel

In fairness cork boy, if you look at some of the crap that can happen to you in Ireland, what you've posted there is no better or worse.
If you had gone to Germany last month, you could have eaten the wrong brussel sprout.....

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Oh how clever! If only this was AH.

How is his point not valid though mike?
A lot of places are safer than Dublin. Certainly, Dublin is a city I avoid walking through at night time.

Latchy

A friend of mine moved over to in Didum, Turkey last year and is loving it .

Cork boy 55

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

saw this on BBC website a few weeks ago
very sad and scary story


Three young Russian women have died and others are in hospital after drinking poisoned alcohol on a yacht in Turkey, Russian and Turkish media report.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13633313

Have you any idea how many people are affected by food poisoning in the UK or Ireland due to dangerous hygene practices in restaurants?

Context versus scaremongering.
If we all went the latter route,barricade manufacturers and door shuttering makers would be in business.We'd go nowhere.

ankaragucu

Have a place in Turkey.Been holidaying there the past 6 years.One of the safest places I've ever been.Do you think you could cope with no vandalism,no gangs of gurriers hanging around the shops,no scumbags,no junkies,etc?If so, go.

Ellian

Went to Kalkan two years ago. One of the best holidays ever. Food was better than either Greece or Italy IMO, some fantastic wine - no bother with alcohol at all - we got served red wine in the rooftop restaurant next to the mosque while the call to prayer was going on in the middle of Ramadan. Great weather, friendly inquisitive people - bit of haggling in the shops but it was all good natured, ended up sitting having tea with two old local boys smoking ciggies while the missus pottered about - plenty of old ruins to look at, canoeing, canyoning, scuba diving, nice relaxing day on a gullet and only 20 minutes of rain in two weeks. My friend and his wife had reported getting a bit of hassle from local lads in Istanbul a few years before that, but from personal experience I have nothing but good things to say about the Turks and their country.

mikedragon32

Beruthiel wrote: »

In fairness cork boy, if you look at some of the crap that can happen to you in Ireland, what you've posted there is no better or worse.
If you had gone to Germany last month, you could have eaten the wrong brussel sprout.....



How is his point not valid though mike?
A lot of places are safer than Dublin. Certainly, Dublin is a city I avoid walking through at night time.

As a mod you should know better than to question a mod instruction on-thread.

Tefral

Im only just back from Kusadasi since the weekend, went for a week (which is too short by the way you need at least 10 days to see all the stuff you want around Kusadasi)

A Group of 5 of us went, 2 Girls and 3 lads. The girls were constantly leered at by the men working in the shops but it was nothing they couldnt handle really. Its perfectly safe, in fact we even visited the Mosque in Kusadasi to look around and the locals loved that fact. The girls got free shawls off a fella in a shop when he found out they were going. The Turks are lovely people, great English too and they know all about Ireland!

Send me a PM if you want more info, ill gladly fill ya in.

Pythia

An Irish girl was killed on a bus there in 2005. http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0716/turkey.html

However, the attacks tend to be from small random groups rather than a concerted terrorist attack. There seemed to be more dangerous activities going on there a few years ago, haven't heard of anything more recent.

Sharm el Sheikh had a much more deadly bombing and people still go there with no worries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sharm_el-Sheikh_attacks

I wouldn't worry about it. I disagree that Dublin is more dangerous but places like London would be.