Tourism in Turkey: Ancient Wonders, Modern Beauty

Firstly, the film uses the elements of film form to reflect historical and political contexts. Since the rise to power of the AKP government in 2002, Turkey has been held Islamic attitudes very

The Mursi woman and her village are not completely showing the tourists their authentic culture as the woman makes it evident that they dress in an almost completely different way when the tourists come. However, they in part are still showing the visitors their culture as they cannot change things such as how their homes are built and what they do for work simply because people are coming to visit. Part of their culture must shine through no matter how hard they

Another very interesting thing about Turkey is the people and their lifestyles,you may not know but turkish lives are far from the same as American lives, the

The Armenians have claimed their home in the southern Caucasus since 7th Century BCE. Throughout many centuries, the Mongol, Persian, Russian, and Ottoman empires have fought over this region. Due to the Armenians lack of unity and strength, they could not claim their lands any longer. They were weak in relation to their conflicting neighbors, and were often deported from the very lands they first lived in. Constant deportations over history eventually led them to many different parts of the world, forming what is the Armenian diaspora.

It was the romantic images of an exotic Oriental civilization promulgated by European and American writers that prejudiced Vander Sluis upon her arrival in Turkey. However beautiful, the Orient was a backward place to Western sensibilities. She initially believes that Muslims of the Orient were “‘unreached people’” who can be evangelized and brought into the Western and Christian sphere (Vander Sluis 274). Rather than being unreached, the Turks Vander Sluis encounters are even more fervent in their religious convictions than she. Making such broad assumptions about people of another culture is not only unfair to the people who are judged, but also unnecessarily limits the opportunities and experiences of those who pass judgment. Vander Sluis warns her readers to avoid the stereotypes she brought with her to Turkey so that, unlike her, we can appreciate the goodness of the people we encounter in life without suspicion. The specter of Orientalism is so pervasive in Vander Sluis’s experience that it initially prevents her from accepting the hospitality of her hosts

After the interview the Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens, many Armenian’s where murdered. As years passed in 1908 a new government came to place overthrowing Sultan Abdul Hamid which was called “young Turks” at first the Armenian’s had hope that things could probably change for them now that they had a different government. But they soon realized that the way these “young Turks” thought was “non- Turks and especially Christian non- Turks were a grave threat to the new state” ( History.com 2010).

So when Mustafa Kamal (Ataturk) began to form a Turkish nation state, it was not clear what constituted a Turk but soon, Kurds were considered as Turks and a policy aiming at the detribalization and assimilation of the Kurds was adopted… The Turkish government's pursuit of full assimilation has led to the proscription of publications of any book, newspaper, or other material in the Kurdish language. Moreover, there has also been an instance of arrests of entertainers for singing songs or performing in Kurdish.

According to Turkish Professor Taner Akçam, in the 2014-2015 school year textbooks, required readings for the few Armenian schools as well as primary and secondary schools throughout Turkey, Armenians were described as traitors, enemies, and a threat to Turkish national security, while the genocide was not surprisingly downplayed and attributed to Armenian rebellions and even Armenian murders of their own people. The anti-Armenian rhetoric on the governmental level has persisted for a century. Armenian children growing up in Turkey today are forced to read that they were traitors, their history is false, and that they themselves are to be feared and discriminated, even today. In the Eastern Anatolia, the traditional Armenian homeland, anyone with Armenian roots can be subject to ostracization and racial slurs like “feleoglufele” or “giaour”: these are Muslim citizens of the Republic of Turkey, with maybe a grandmother or great-grandmother that was Armenian, who usually identify as either Kurdish or Turkish. So it should not come as a surprise that there are so-called “Crypto Armenians” like this today where Armenians had lived for millennia, forced to relinquish their cultural heritage. The cartoon that the Armenian Genocide is something that is in the past is

However, Turkey relies heavily on capital inflows as one of the factors limiting the Turkish economy, even though Turkey has strong domestic consumption. Turkey’s key industries are hospitality and tourism industry, a growing number of factories is invested by multinational companies in Turkey (Abylkassymova 2011:13), automotive production probably surpass tourism and is becoming the largest cluster in Turkey (ibid:13). In addition, there are

Its spectacular tourist sites, captivating entertainment, and unusual public culture lend a complexity and mystique to the region. Although the growth rate of Greece’s GDP has been negative for years, the government is beginning to take action. Hopefully, it will prove beneficial to the general populace. Since the exquisite beauty of the country is indisputable, and the intrinsic cultural interest of its society and history is unquestionable, perhaps a greater understanding and promulgation of what Greece can offer to tourists would improve its profits in that area. It should never be forgotten how much of an impact this diminutive country has had on shaping world thought and ideas. The Hellenic Republic stands alone as a pinnacle of historic, cultural, and artistic achievement, a literal turning point in the history of the world.

Similar tensions exist between the Iraqi Government and the Kurds. In the 1920s and 1930s the Turks put down the Kurds; the Turkish Government deprived them of the Kurdish identity by outlawing their language and forbidding them to wear traditional Kurdish clothing in cities. The Government also encouraged immigration of Kurds to the cities to divide the populations in the mountains. Turkey continues its policy of recognizing the Kurds as a minority.

Throughout history, the middle east has often been the focus of news reporters. A middle eastern country that has not been exempt from this, is Turkey. Turkey has not only been a focus, but it also has had a very long, complicated history.

The suspension of chartered holidays to Turkey caused great effect on the Turkish economy. In 2014, a year pre-incident, tourists from Russia made up around 12.2% of the 37 million tourist arrivals to Turkey, making up 0.3%-0.4% of its GDP, (Bilgic-Alpaslan et al, 2015). However post incident, the flow of Russian tourists to Turkey declined from 3.6 million in 2015 to less than 1 million in the following year (Perlman, 2017) and as tourism is a key sector in the contribution to Turkey’s economy it meant that it had risked losing $3.5 billion dollars annual income from Russian tourists. The negative change in arrivals can be seen in the diagram below, (figures from (Lowen, 2016).

Today, tourism has become a global phenomenon being widely recognized in both regional and national levels. In fact, tourism is considered as one of the fastest growing sectors in the world economy, thereby being viewed as a potential sector in raising tax revenues, providing employment opportunities as well as promoting economic diversity (Khizindar, 2012). Goeldner and Ritchie (2006) indicate that the significance of tourism has increased considerably through educational institutions such as universities as well as media, which are conduits of spreading the concept of tourism and hospitality .For instance, Saudi Arabia is one of those countries in the Middle East, which is determined to promote tourism for growth and sustainability despite belonging to those nations that have historically built their economies on oil and natural gas (Eid, 2012).

The themes of the text are tourism, travel, and luxury. These themes are all inevitable when it comes to advertising a country. However this text is very much different. The