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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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