Gay Travel to Istanbul
A Turkish Bath in Istanbul

Travel to Turkey
As a Muslim country, Turkey reveals a very different attitude than most other Islamic countries toward lesbigay life. Progressive and highly western, Turkey allows gays to have a measure of freedom of expression and as well access to fulfilling careers and romantic intimacy--as long as you stay invisible.
Modern urban Turkey is an east-west culture that has become infused, for most of the 20th century, with European life. Indeed, after the defeat of the 700-year-old Islamic Ottoman Empire in World War I, England and France pretty much split up Turkey between themselves for several years. That European flavor has never faded. Western humanitarian, economic and political standards have prevailed as well as countless Victorian, art-deco and neo-classical style buildings, along with clutching traffic jams and independent newspapers.

Modern Turkey is sourced back to a distinct year, 1923, when the charismatic and powerful military leader Mustafa Kamal declared the country to be an independent country. He led his troops to victory against the occupying Europeans. Within ten years, Kamal, known in history as Ataturk , had infused his lethargic agrarian homeland with progressive modern ideas, values and standards.
Women were given education and the right to vote, the fez hat was outlawed, and the old Arabic alphabet was swept out and replaced with the Latin alphabet (used in most the western languages). Respect for ‘humanism’ and individual differences was prized along with a regard for advanced science and technology.
It was Ataturk who was mostly responsible for separating mosque and state in Turkey. In doing so he softened the suffocating religious pale over legal and state affairs. Indirectly, it also lifted a curse over homosexual truth. By dissolving the fierce authority of Islam, same-sex desire became a cultural and secular consideration, not a religious matter. Rule of law replaced inconsistently administered moral religious codes --and that has made all the difference for the (slow and gradual) emergence of today’s lesbigay community.
Not that Turkey has become a Holland of the south. Being gay here is still a shadow identity. But in recent generations, building on Ataturk’s original humanism, there’s been a persistent gay subculture making its voice heard . Mainstream culture is slowly realizing that gay men are not necessarily effeminate outcasts; many high positions in society, commerce, politics and media are competently occupied by gays and lesbians without their being overtly identified.
Therefore Gay Travel to Turkey is still one of the most attractive, cultural and colorful destinations that you can see and feel the best mixture of eastern-western cultures in a nicely atmosphere.
Gay Travel to Turkey will make you to be a part of this alluring land with a magic touch given by the friendly gay community in their gayly styles.
Gay Travel to Turkey will be one of your unforgetables in your life and will wish to visit again.