About Alanya
Alanya is a holiday resort located on the south coasts of Turkey with its popular and still-breathing ancient history. The city’s unique, natural and blue flagged beaches lie along the south shores. The summer passes by quite hot, leaving no decent rain while the winter is warm and rainy in this city, where you can feel the Mediterranean climate’s soft touch on your skin. In winter, the air temperature is 14°C while the sea’s is 18°C and in summer, the air’s is 27°C while the sea’s is 25°C on average. Snow is regarded as an impossible natural event here.
Toros Mt, with their heights exceeding 2 thousand meters, look like a coat sewed with snow. There are 20 rivers flowing from the top of mountains to Mediterranean Sea, carrying the melting snow as water in the fresh time of spring. Therefore, each valley here is a beautiful, pleasurable picnic area on its own with racetracks for rafting! Plateaus on the hills host a great greenfinch. There are ideal areas both for Jeep safari and trekking. Even just beyond the walls of Castle of Alanya can there 16 endemic (a plant unique to the place it grows) plants be found.
History
In a few words:
Mankind settled here almost 20 thousand years ago, living in caves. According to Heredot, the separated communities after the Trojan War inhabited the city, borders of which were from Pamphylia to Cilicia. The city used to host many pirates that even Rome, the world empire of the ancient times, did not have authority on them. In the medieval times, the city was under the rule of Byzantium Empire, but later served to Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate. The sultan loved the city so much that after the reconstruction of the city, he named it with his own name. Alanya has had many names up to now; Coracesium, Kalonoros and Alaiye. Today, with its history that survived against thousands of years, Alanya is nominated as UNESCO’s World Heritage Site.
Geographical Position, Climate and Vegetation Cover
Alanya is located on the south of Turkey, in Mediterranean region within the borders of a province called Antalya. While it is hot and arid in summer, rainy and humid in winter there, it is always possible to feel the sun heat for approximately 300 days throughout a year. Citrus fruits has an important role in people's living. Alanya is absolutely unique with its lemon, orange and citrus trees that are spread over the town's streets.
Modern Alanya
After tourism sector took its place in Alanya in the 50's, it has served as a model especially about tourism both in Turkey and the world with its cooperating public and government. With its museums, sport centers, opportunities for culture and art activities Alanya attracts approximately 15 thousand tourists both in winter and summer every year! Alanya has 12 sister cities eleven of which are European and their townsfolks have sincere relationships with each other.
Informations

Republic of Turkey is a secular and democratic state of law, gained its independency under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in 1923. Turkey is a full candidate of European Union and a member of Council of Europe. Its capital is Ankara and currency is Turkish Lira. Turkish Liras are in use as 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 TL worth banknotes and 0.05, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50 and 1 TL worth coins.

Alanya is a town, whose province is Antalya, and has a population of approximately 100 thousand people. Along with the central municipality, there are other 15 town municipalities in Alanya.

Turkey is located on GMT+2 timezone and it is 2 hours away from England, 1 hour away from Central Europe.
Official working hours in Turkey are those between 08:00-17:00; official weekends are Saturdays and Sundays.
Security is provided by the police in central town and by gendarmes in more rural areas. Security forces' duties and rights are regulated according to European Union standards.
Prices and Tips
Prices change due to the conditions of free market economy, nevertheless, it is a must for shop owners to put price tags on their products.
In Turkey, it is enough to give servers in hotels, restaurants, bathhouses, barbers or coiffeurs a tip that costs around 5-15 per cent of total price. Taxi and minibus drivers never look for a tip.
Feasts and Holiday
Anatolia, as a cultural bridge between the East and the West in our age, is an initial point on which civilization began and the Turkish have their own culture on these region. The most important characteristic of the Turkish, most of which are Muslims, is their hospitality. Visitors who visit Turkish people are always offered tea, coffee, ayran (buttermilk) or another beverage. The offers should not be rejected as it is impolite.
23th of April, 19th of May, 29th of October, 30th of August are national feasts; 1st of January is officially holiday. There are also 2 other religious feasts throughout the year one of which lasts for 3 days and the other of which lasts for 4 days.
Traffic
In Turkey, vehicles follow the road on its right. Maximum speed is 110 km/h on interprovincal highways. Traffic polices check vehicles' speed with radars.
Banking Transactions
You can do international money transactions in banks, use credit cards on automatic banking machines. Especially with dollar and euro, you are able to shop with foreign currency as well. Therefore, you can change your money at exchange offices. Travel cheques can only be exchanged at banks. There are a lot of ATMs all around Turkey, which also allow major European banks' credit and ATM cards, and they also include English language option for tourists.
Using Cellphones
There are 3 different international GSM operators which also serve in Turkey. You can also use top-up cards for your mobile phones.  There are many shops from where you can rent cars, jeeps or motorbikes.  There is a well-equipped municipality, a university and two private hospitals serving for the public continually as well as dialysis centers, which are found everywhere in the town.  Other than national health insurances, European health insurances are also valid in hospitals. Insurance agencies in Alanya run every sort of insurance procedures.
Units of Measurement
The metric system, which is officially used in Europe, is also used in Turkey.
1 inch= 2,54 centimeters
1 centimeter=0,3937 inches
1 yard=0,9144 meters
1 meter=1,0936 yards
1 mile=1,6093 kilometers
1 kilometer=0,6214 miles
1 pound= 0,4536 kilograms
1 kilogram=2,2046 pounds