Advantages: Friendly people, the grandeur of the Anitkabir, cheap accommodation Disadvantages: Bad sign-posting, not very tradtional, new areas brash
...there.
Ankara offered the space to create a new city with the sort of buildings Attaturk wanted to embody the new Republic, a kind of showcase for the rest of the world. Indeed, Attaturk wanted more than just to start anew with the governemnt offices and public buildings, his plan was for the secularisation of Turkey, a plan which still has repercussions today.
While I was in another Turkish city, Edirne, I met a couple who both knew Ankara but had different experinces of it. She was from Glasgow and had taught English as a private tutor to a weathy Turkish family. She had been based in the "new" part of Ankara with its modern stores, international hotels and foreign embassies. Her husband, a Turk, had lived in Ulus, the old part of the city. Her opinion of Ankara was that it was sterile and faceless, his was that it was just a typical...
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Advantages: Something for everyone; easy to get around Disadvantages: Very cold in winter; wine is expensive and can double the cost of your meal
...We have been travelling to Ankara at least twice a year every year for nearly nine years now, and I have grown to love the city even more than Istanbul. Ankara is very, very different to Istanbul and, in many ways, it is unfair to compare the two.
So, why do I love Ankara? Basically because it provides all the things I want in a city (given that I'm not really a "city person"). Truly, it has something for everyone.
If you want history, it's got it - from Roman ruins, to the Citadel (Castle), to Ataturk and the War of Independence, which lead to the founding of the modern Republic of Turkey.
If you want grandeur, it's got it - even if you don't know the history, who can fail to be moved by Anitkabir, the imposing mausoleum built to honour Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
If you want iconic, modern buildings, it's got them - from...
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Advantages: Cosmopolitan and full of culture Disadvantages: It is a modern city
...on the way up the citadel (inclusive of smell).
On the other hand there is the 'westernised' part of Ankara, Kavaklidere, where you find the Embassies and the Sheraton and Hilton hotels. The air-conditioned Karum shopping centre with its marble fountain outside and it designer shops inside is another world altogether. Oh and there is a Marks&Spencer just up the road too.
This was just a particular detail which really made an impression on me this summer.
What I hadn't mentioned was the Metro and Ankaray (two different lines of the underground system) which provide cheap, fast and efficient transport all across the city. It's been up and running for at least two years but I noticed that some new editions of guidebooks still made no reference to it....
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