While Turkey is rightly renowned for its warm Mediterranean beaches, wintersports, especially skiing, is very much a possibility—and indeed a popular activity—in the mountainous interior of the country between October and April, with a guaranteed stable snowcover and constant below freezing temperatures between December and March. Some more eastern resorts have longer periods of snowcover.
Most popular wintersports resorts include UludaÄ near Bursa, Kartepe near Izmit, Kartalkaya near Bolu, and Ilgaz near Kastamonu in the northwest of the country, Palandöken near Erzurum, and SarıkamıŠnear Kars in the northeast of the country, and Erciyes near Kayseri in the central part. Saklıkent near Antalya is touted to be one of the places where you can ski in the morning and swim in the warm waters of Mediterranean down the coast in Antalya in the afternoon, though snowcover period in Saklıkent is desperately short as not to let this happen every year.
Work as an English teacher is reasonably easy to stumble upon. ESL teachers with a Bachelorâs Degree and TESOL Certificate can expect to earn 800 - 2,500 TRY monthly and will usually teach 20 â 35 hours in a week. Contracts will sometimes include accommodations, airfare, and health-care.
Being that import-export is huge in Turkey, there are also many opportunities outside of teaching, though these are often much more difficult to find and require some legal work.
You need to have a work permit to work in Turkey. The control over illegal workers have grown stricter in the past five years with the consequence of deportation, so take the work permit issue seriously.
However, if you have your own company in Turkey you are allowed to "manage" it without having a work permit. Setting up what is known as an FDI foreign direct investment company is relatively straightforward, takes a few days and costs around 2300 ytl April 07. You don't need a Turkish partner, the company can be 100% foreign owned and required a minimum of two people as share holders. Running costs for a company average about 2500 ytl per year for a small to medium enterprise, less for an inactive company.
Owning a company allows you to be treated as Turkish in respect of purchasing real estate and bypasses the need for military permission and allows you to complete a sale in one day if required.
Naile's Art Home
Is a marbling paper ebru gallery and workshop located in cappadocia.
Kayaköy Art School
Located in kayakã¶y, a ghost town near fethiye is offering art classes in summer, specializing on photography, painting, and sculpture.
Ottoman Turkish
You can take the Ottoman Turkish classes in Adatepe, a village frequented by intellectuals near Küçükkuyu/Altınoluk in the northern Aegean Region. You can also participate in philosophy classes taking place every summer in nearby Assos, organized as a continuation of the ancient âagoraâ/âforumâ tradition of Mediterranean cities.
Glass workshops
Located around beykoz on the northern asian banks of the bosphorus in istanbul, are offering one-day classes that you can learn making recycled glass and ornaments made of glass.
language schools
There are many language schools where you can study Turkish in most of the big cities. Ankara University affiliated Tömer (http://www.tomer.ankara.e...) is one of the most popular language schools in Turkey and has branches in many big cities, including Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir among others.
universities
Many Turkish universities both public and private are participating in pan-European student exchange programs Socrates, Erasmus, and the like. Some also have agreements with non-European universities, too. Check with your own university and the one that you intend to study in Turkey.