Mediterranean coast and Hatay. Хатай. In the best small towns of Turkey the best beaches
The small town of Turkey undivided with Syria
Hut which a thick small finger presses in the district of Syria, represents the Arab enclave and it is connected more with the Arab world, if with from time immemorial Turkish areas. In the region separatist tendencies are observed, but it usually does not influence those who longs to go to Turkey, on the contrary, multinational Hatay professing some religions represents the real enthusiasm. The biggest local city, Antakya, is in the plain of the river of Asya proceeding on a watershed between ridges of mountains of Hyp and Ziyaret. It has been based at the time of Selevkidov, was the basic centre at Romans and though since then in it practically has remained nothing, its cosmopolitism, beaches of Turkey, a beautiful museum and fine food do this city completely worthy to include it in own route of travel. Other big centre of Hataya, Iskenderun, represents industrial port which is also capable to offer even more, than it can seem from the first look. Here also there are hotels of Turkey with a sand beach. Хатай became a part of modern Turkey only in 1939, after the First World War and disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. Being separated from the French protectorate of Muslim Syria, in 1938 it for short term became the independent Republic Hatay, and was a part of Turkey on the basis of results of the plebiscite carried out in the country later. Taking this step, Hatay counted on support of stronger neighbour or, on the last measure, on his neutrality in becoming ripe war. Calculation has come true. The Ataturk dreaming of "oturechivaniye" of the region, has invented to it the title which type concerns one of medieval Turkic tribes. But weather in the small towns of Turkey calls tourists to come here every year.
The best beaches of Turkey are inaccessible to tourists last decades
The most part of local inhabitants says in Arab, and certain from them wish to become again a part of Syria that has brought in 1983 to severe mess in Antakya. From own party, Syria also wishes to return for itself Hatay or, on the last measure, longs to use his well-known separatist moods for pressure upon Turkey. The best beaches of Turkey from that party were inaccessible to tourists. Nevertheless, intensity between 2 countries has essentially decreased in 1998 when the Syrian government has sent the favourite of Kurdistan Workers' Party (KRP) Abdullakh Ocalan from Damascus and has stopped to support Kurdish separatists. Owing to normalisation of the relations between 2 countries has started to develop, evenly increasing the volumes, frontier trade. In fact, the Arab influence has extended on the small town of Turkey and Hatay in the VII century when their attacks have started to torment frontier regions of the dying Byzantium. Despite of that they never were able establish long political control over this territory, they could found here invariable settlements and detain Hatay even in an extent of all history of the Ottoman Empire. To Arabs the region was under jurisdiction of Romans, and still earlier — Selevkidov which successfully used his profitable geographical position on which passed trading ways to Syria.
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