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Most people fly to Turkey: check Cheap Airfares & Airlines.

There are other ways to get to Turkey:

BUS
Several Turkish bus companies, including deluxe Varan Turizm, run big, comfortable buses to and from Europe weekly, but it's a long trip, and with airfares so cheap these days, why not fly?

SHIP
Most ships calling at Turkish ports are for cruises, not simple passage (more on cruise ships docking in Turkey...), but modern car ferries run from the Italian ports of Venice, Ancona, Bari and Brindisi via the Greek port of Patras to Çesme, west of Izmir in the warmer months (April or May through October or November, depending on the company). Your ferry voyage becomes a mini-cruise, and you needn't have a car to sail on one. Here are dates, times, fares and ports.

There's also a service between Odessa, Ukraine, and Istanbul, and of course the ferries from the Greek Aegean islands to Turkey.

TRAIN
The days of the fabled Orient Express are long gone. Cheap flights, modern buses and the Balkan wars of the 1990s put an end to through trains between Istanbul and Europe.

Still, there are s-lo-w daily trains between Istanbul's Sirkeci Station and Belgrade (Belgrat, 23 hours), Bucharest (Bükres, 20 hours) and Thessaloniki (Selanik, 15 hours), whence you can connect with trains to Budapest (36 hours), Venice, Munich and Athens. More...

CAR
If you drive your own car to Turkey, you'll need to buy Green Card insurance at the border from the Turkish Touring and Automobile Association. More...


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Aerial View of Istanbul, Turkey

Above, if you fly, you may get a breathtaking view of Istanbul such as this.

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