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Why choose Avis for your Türkiye car hire?
Our Türkiye car rental services span one of the largest Avis networks in the region, with offices at Istanbul Airport, Sabiha Gökçen, Antalya, Izmir, Dalaman, Bodrum and Kayseri — the gateway to Cappadocia — as well as in the cities and along the coast.
Türkiye is one of the great driving countries: more than seven thousand kilometres of coastline, a modern toll motorway network, and a complete change of scenery every few hours. For travellers from the UAE it is a short flight with an unusually wide range of possible itineraries.
Flexible return options make the classic routes easy — collect in Izmir and finish in Antalya, or fly into Istanbul, drive to Cappadocia and hand the car back at Kayseri.
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Türkiye holds more Greek ruins than Greece, a coastline the Romans fought over, and an interior of volcanic rock that people hollowed out and lived inside for centuries. It is also one of the few countries where a two-week drive can take you from a European city to the edge of the Middle East without ever leaving it.
Istanbul is the usual arrival point, though it is a city best walked and ferried rather than driven — many visitors collect their car on the way out. Give it a few days first: Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque facing each other across a park, the treasuries of Topkapı Palace, the covered sprawl of the Grand Bazaar, and the Bosphorus dividing the continents in the middle of it all.
From there the Aegean opens up. Izmir is the base for Ephesus, the best-preserved classical city in the Mediterranean, and for the white travertine terraces of Pamukkale with the ruins of Hierapolis above them. The coast south of it — Çeşme, Bodrum, the Datça peninsula — is where Türkiye takes its own holidays.
The D400 coastal road along the Lycian shore is the drive of the trip: Fethiye and the lagoon at Ölüdeniz, the harbour town of Kaş, the long empty beach at Patara, the flames of Chimaera burning above Olympos, and finally Antalya, where the old quarter of Kaleiçi sits inside Roman walls. The theatre at Aspendos, still used for performances, is half an hour inland.
Central Anatolia holds Cappadocia, and no destination in the country rewards having your own car more. The rock-cut churches of the Göreme valleys are UNESCO-listed, the underground cities of Derinkuyu and Kaymaklı descend eight levels, and the balloon fields at dawn are best reached before the tour buses. Konya, with the Mevlana museum, and Ankara, with the outstanding Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, are both on the way. Further east, the stone heads of Nemrut Dağı wait for sunrise, and Gaziantep serves what many consider the best food in the country.
Motorways are excellent and operate on an electronic toll tag — confirm at collection that your vehicle carries a valid one. Coastal and mountain roads are winding and demand attention, and city driving in Istanbul and Izmir is best avoided at peak hours. April to June and September to October give the best balance of weather and crowds.
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