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APRIL (Nisan, nee-SAHN)

During April in Turkey, you may get some rain, or a lot of rain, but there may also be virtually none, and in any case the wild flowers and cherry blossoms will be out in the Thrace/Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean and Central Anatolia regions, which is more than fair compensation for any rain showers. (Imagine an entire kilometer sweep of brilliant yellow or blue color!)

In Istanbul, the city's Tulip Festival produces three million tulips burst into a riot of color.

The waters of the Aegean and Mediterranean are approaching a comfortable temperature for swimming at their beaches.

Temperatures in the west and south are relatively mild, but in the mountainous East it's still cold. The Southeast (Gaziantep, Urfa, Mardin, Diyarbakir), so torrid and parched in high summer, is very pleasant now, but there may still be snow on top of Nemrut Dagi south of Malatya.

At the beginning of the month, dolphins on their annual migration swim through the Sea of Marmara and northward through the Bosphorus at Istanbul, and onward to the Black Sea.

The International Istanbul Film Festival is in April.

The big national holiday is National Sovereignty Day (Ulusal Egemenlik Bayrami, April 23), when the first Grand National Assembly, or republican parliament, met in Ankara in 1920. It's also Children's Day. An international children's festival, with kids from all over the world, is centered in Ankara with celebrations throughout the country.

On ANZAC Day (April 25), dawn services at Gallipoli remember the 500,000 men who died or were wounded here during World War I. Backpackers Travel organizes tours to Gallipoli for ANZAC Day. More...

In late April, the storks arrive in Selçuk, next to Ephesus, to repair their nests, lay their eggs, and raise their young until September, when they all fly away. In the meantime, their presence brings good luck, beauty, happiness, guano, and a lot of bill-clattering to the town.

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April Tulips, Istanbul, Turkey

Above, Istanbul bursts into flower with its annual Tulip Festival.
Below, Lone Pine Cemetery at Gallipoli.

 

Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey