About Show Me Türkiye
Not just a guide to Türkiye, a place to live it.
Our goal is not just to describe Türkiye, but to build a platform where you could truly live it.
We are a group of travellers in love with Türkiye, the kind who will pull over for a view we have already seen a hundred times. For years we have crossed the country to show it to the world and to invite people to live it, not just look at it. We are still on the road today, still filming, still writing, still finding more to share. Everything here is made for travellers, by travellers.
And we make it the way we would want it ourselves. Films that let you feel a place before you ever pack a bag, city guides that point you to the right neighbourhood and the right season, and routes that thread the country together so anyone can travel it like someone who already knows the way.
The secret is in the mix. We start from what a visitor actually needs to know, then layer the knowledge of the people who live there on top. One half keeps you oriented. The other half makes it real.
That has been the goal from the very first frame. Not a country to read about, but a country to walk straight into.
Cinematic films shot across the country, from coastal villages to mountain plateaus. Where most guides start with information, we start with the feeling.
City guides covering every corner of Türkiye, the neighbourhoods, the seasons, the places worth the trip. The kind of detail you usually only get from a friend who lives there.
Ready-made itineraries that connect it all into a single trip, day by day. The planning is done, so all that is left for you is the journey.
Started by a filmmaker, built on the road.
Show Me Türkiye was founded in 2018 by Halil Bekar, a director and cinematographer who makes travel and documentary films. It began as a simple project: to document Türkiye through original films, shot on location, one city at a time.
Halil still leads the platform creatively. The destination films are made by him and his crew, and the guides and routes grow out of the same time in the field. Every article in the Journal is reviewed by him before it goes out.
More of his work is on halilbekar.com, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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2026
Award Winner
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2024
Second Place, Travel Promo
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2022
Best Tourism Film, City Category
Türkiye doesn't fit on a checklist. It takes time, and most of it happens on the road: in the people you meet, the food, the weather, the long drives and the small surprises in between. Everything we make comes from that road. We just want you to see more of this country, understand it a little better, and travel it with a bit more confidence.
