About TurkishPress

A magazine of Türkiye

Established 1996. Archived by the Library of Congress in 2001. Relaunched 2026 as a regional encyclopedia and slow travelogue.

i.What this publication is

TurkishPress is a magazine of Türkiye — long-form, literary, regional. It publishes essays on the civilisations that have shaped Anatolia, its cities ancient and modern, its seven geographical regions, its kitchens, and the seasonal rhythms of the year. The work is slow and unhurried; the reading register is closer to Aramco World or the BBC History magazine than to a travel listicle.

For readers planning an actual trip — itineraries, hotels, when to go — see our practical sister site ILoveTurkey.com. For the geography of the Republic itself — borders, coastlines, climate — CountryOfTurkey.com.

ii.A long pedigree on the open web

TurkishPress.com first went online in 1996, as one of the early English-language news syndication sites about Türkiye. It was produced by Anatolia.com Inc., a small press organisation operating from Mersin and the Pacific Northwest, alongside its sister sites Mersina.com (1996, our first site) and Anatolia.com (an English-language encyclopedia of the country, with a page for almost every Turkish province). All three were built when "what is a website?" was still a fair question to ask in any room.

In October 2001, in the months following the September 11 attacks, the Library of Congress selected TurkishPress.com for inclusion in its September 11 Web Archive — a curated collection preserving "the web expressions of individuals, groups, the press and institutions in the United States and from around the world in the aftermath of the attacks." The archived item carries the catalogue identifier lcwaN0020018. The decision was made because TurkishPress was at that moment one of the few English-language venues carrying the Turkish press's coverage of the period to international readers.

The publication continued for a number of years and then went dormant, as small press operations sometimes do. Anatolia.com was sold many years ago and is now an unrelated tile-and-stone business. Mersina.com remains a sleeping domain. The decades of writing those sites carried, however, are still here — and the editorial sensibility they were built on, slow and literate, remains the standard for what TurkishPress publishes today.

This 2026 relaunch is the publication's next chapter. The first phase — the long-form Anatolian essays you see across the rest of the site — is the editorial heart of the new magazine. A News section and an Archive section, drawing on the original syndication work and the LoC-preserved material, will follow.

iii.Editorial standards

Every page is fact-checked against authoritative Turkish sources before publishing. The default citation hierarchy is: official government — the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the provincial governorships (Valilikler), GoTürkiye, and TÜİK — followed by canonical Turkish news (Anadolu Ajansı first, then Daily Sabah and Hürriyet Daily News), then the Turkish Diyanet's İslâm Ansiklopedisi and the Encyclopædia Britannica, then peer-reviewed academic sources. Western press is cited only when no Turkish source covers the same ground.

Where a place has been touched by recent events that affect a visitor's experience — most notably the February 2023 earthquakes in southern Türkiye — the page acknowledges this honestly, near the top, without making the page about disaster.

iv.The family of sites

TurkishPress is part of a small family of Türkiye-focused sites, each with its own focus:

v.Get in touch

Corrections, suggestions, photographs you'd like to contribute, or just a note — hello@turkishpress.com. The newsletter goes out once a month with whatever's new; subscribe via the form on the homepage.

TurkishPress.com archived in the U.S. Library of Congress, September 11 Web Archive — item identifier lcwaN0020018. Original publication, 1996.