Turkish Odyssey, A Cultural Guide to Turkey is a guidebook written by Şerif Yenen, it is the “first guidebook of Turkey ever written by a Turk”.
The book has been translated into multiple languages and its various editions are used in academia. A comprehensive, revised, and expanded three-volume edition was released in 2025.
Publication History The first English edition was published in September 1998 (). A multimedia version supplemented with a CD-ROM was released in 2001 ().
The work has been translated into several other languages, including: Turkish: Anadolu Destanı, Türkiye Gezi Rehberi () Italian: In Turchia, Un Viaggio nella Cultura Anatolica () German: Die Türkische Odyssee, Ein Kulturreiseführer für die Türkei ()
In 2022, an updated and revised print edition of the Turkish version, Anadolu Destanı, was released by Alfa Yayınları ().
In 2025, Yenen published a comprehensive, revised, and expanded three-volume boxed set titled Turkish Odyssey: A Cultural Guide to Türkiye ().
Academic Use The guidebook is used as a textbook or is on suggested reading lists at several universities for courses on tourism and Anatolian civilizations.
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