Introducing Türkbükü

Türkbükü's reputation as Turkey's poshest beach getaway is kept alive by the Turkish celebrities, politicians and business moguls who flock here each summer. Thus considering that better beaches exist elsewhere on the peninsula, visiting this privileged cove might be best understood as a sociocultural experience – not to mention an opportunity for an excellent meal and a cocktail in style.

Even in a place where women go to the beach in high-heels, sporting diamond-encrusted sunglasses, tongue-in-cheek reminders of social divisions remain; the tiny wooden bridge between the two halves of Türkbükü's beach is jokingly said to divide the 'European side' from the 'Asian side' – a reference to İstanbul, and an insinuation of the wealth gap between the ultra-posh homes and hotels on the western shores, and the ever-so-slightly less-expensive ones to the east. These days, in the words of one local hotelier, with the chichi resort town's increasing beautification, it's more a case of 'Europe' and 'eastern Europe'.

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