Live, Work & Travel in Turkey
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Top Sites
Turkey Travel Planner – Tom Brosnahan has created an excellent travel guide to Turkey. There are 5000+ pages on hotels and hostels, airport transport, travel agents, itineraries and guided tours, car rentals, gulet yachts, cruises, mobile phones, flights, buses, visas, Turkish lira exchange rates, camel wrestling festivals and the answers to your travel questions.
Turkish Travel Blog – Aims to inspire people to visit the country, featuring a variety of destinations from the east to the west and focusing on Turkish food, culture, history, lifestyle and expat living.
Kaya Pansiyon – A few minutes’ walk from the marina, sea front, Bar Street, restaurants, shops and bus station, this peaceful and quiet family Pansiyon has been welcoming visitors to Bodrum since 1987. Fans of Bodrum ourselves, this is our favourite place to stay when in town.
Employment in Turkey
Employers, Agencies & Placement Services
Avalon – Recruit sales agents across Turkey to sell funeral plans to expat residents.
British International School – Interviews held in February in London. Application form on site.
Dialogue Language Schools – Jobs are often available in these Istanbul English language schools. German courses too. Website is in Turkish but phone numbers are given. They also organise au pair, work and travel and semester programmes, presumably for Turks.
English Time – An international group of language schools with a branch in Istanbul. Not in English.
Eyuboglu – Experienced English teachers recruited.There’s a Byzantine online job application.
Istanbul Language Centre – Advertises in the UK for English language teachers. Interviews held in the UK.
Kent English – English language school. No employment details on website but click ‘Kariyerim’ on the left side menu for an application form in English.
Turco-British Association – EFL jobs available. Despite the Union flag in the top right corner suggesting otherwise, the site is only in Turkish.
Employment Resources for Finding Work in Turkey
Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work
Learn 4 Good – Mostly teaching jobs but there were also vacancies offered for translators, dive instructors animators and entertainers when we looked.
Turkish Job Centre – A job board advertising Turkish related job vacancies. Most jobs are actually in the UK but some are in Turkey.
Gap Year & Voluntary Work in Turkey
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Bugday Association for Supporting Ecological Living – A WWOOF group member with a small but growing number of organic farms requiring volunteer workers.
EEC Anglo – Runs English immersion programmes in Turkey, in a 3 star hotel in Fethiye, for which they need native English speaking volunteers. In return volunteers receive all-inclusive double room accommodation with unlimited alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for seven days.
EKAD – A fairly inexpensive volunteer programme in Belek, the second largest known sea turtle nesting area in the Mediterranean, that covers food, accommodation, transportation expenses within the project and from and to the airport. Volunteers are needed for between 15 days and three and a half months, and duties include monitoring sea turtle populations, determining and minimising the negative impacts on nests and hatchlings, providing tourists and the local people with information about sea turtles, creating a public awareness about the conservation of sea turtles, and encouraging contributions to the conservation studies.
Genctur – A local Turkish based organisation that offered volunteer work on workcamps. The English version of their website is no longer available casting doubt on whether this is still the case.
Fairy Chimney Inn – This cave hotel in Goreme takes on a volunteer to help about the place. Volunteers are also invited to initiate and implement a small cultural project of their own choosing.
* Free or Cheap Volunteering *Your family might prefer if you go with a placement agency, but volunteering in Turkey can be cheaper when travelling independently. Visit our Free or Cheap Volunteer Work Abroad pages to find NGOs and grassroots organisations. |
Living in Turkey
Real Estate and Resources for Staying Long Term
Cebeci Construction Company – New build properties in the Alanya region.
Didim Belediyesi – Town council webite in Turkish and English.
Didim Guide – Bills itself as a travel and tourism guide but with its range of links to doctors, curtain stores and satelite TV installation companies is also very useful to those living in the town.
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Consular information.
Turkish iClassified – Turkish property ads.
Turkish Living Forum – Forums covering issues from dogs being poisoned to learning the language and balcony furniture.
Turkish Property World – A source of free information about Turkey; it’s regions, the Turkish property market, legal issues and advice on the best way to secure your dream home.
Turyap – Nationwide estate agency established in 1985 and with over 250 offices across Turkey.
Unwin Estate Agents – Property sales in North Cyprus. Website includes a short buying guide and information about title deeds.
Travelling in Turkey
Accommodation & Getting Around
Altinkum – A tourist guide with some property information.
Bodrum Ferryboat Association – Timetables and routes from Bodrum to Kos, Rhodes and other destinations.
Bodrumpages.com – History, useful information and things to do in Bodrum.
Holiday Cave Hotel – Ideally situated in the centre of Goreme in the heart of Cappadocia, this hotel offers you typical Central Anatolian style rooms; some of them are cave rooms but all rooms are equipped with all mod cons. They also have a swimming pool.
Kaya Pansiyon – A few minutes’ walk from the marina, sea front, Bar Street, restaurants, shops and bus station, this peaceful and quiet family Pansiyon has been welcoming visitors to Bodrum since 1987. Fans of Bodrum ourselves, this is our favourite place to stay when in town.
Kirkit Pension – A lovingly restored semi cave in Avanos offering the comfort of a boutique hotel at reasonable prices. Enjoy traditional Cappadocian meals and music around an atmospheric courtyard. All 17 rooms, decorated with antiques and kilims, have bathrooms and heating.
Lets Go Turkey – Travel information with, of course, a property finder.
Olympos Orange Pension – Set amongst orange trees, Olympos Orange Pension is a short walk through ancient ruins to the sea. Relaxation area, open air bar, daily and nightly tours, laundry and free wifi. Breakfast and dinner included. We miss the sound of the dinner bell.
Onur Air – Budget airline with slightly grumpy cabin staff.
Top Ten Turkey.com – A top ten guide to all things Turkish from holiday resorts to Turkish football players, movies and property buying tips.
Turkish Airlines – Multi lingual website.
Turkey Welcomes You – Official website of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Office in London.
Turkish Travel Blog – Aims to inspire people to visit the country, featuring a variety of destinations from the east to the west and focusing on Turkish food, culture, history, lifestyle and expat living.
Turkey Travel Planner – Tom Brosnahan has created an excellent travel guide to Turkey. There are 5000+ pages on hotels and hostels, airport transport, travel agents, itineraries and guided tours, car rentals, gulet yachts, cruises, mobile phones, flights, buses, visas, Turkish lira exchange rates, camel wrestling festivals and the answers to your travel questions.
Other Useful Turkish Websites
Culture, News…
Didim Today – Didim, Altinkum and Akbuk local news, articles and user submitted stories for the local community.
Today’s Zaman – National English language newspaper.
Turkish Embassy – Turkish representation in London.
Voices – English language newspaper based in Didim.