Word: bodrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago, Bodrum, Turkey, seemed like a town that time had forgotten. "It was a small fishing village," remembers Atlantic Records Chairman Ahmet Ertegun. "The main activities were fishing and sponge diving, as well as work in agriculture -- citrus trees, olive trees." There were a few foreigners to be found haggling over prices with merchants at the bazaar, and a handful of tourists viewing the city's ancient ruins...
...visitor returning today would hardly know Bodrum. The town's 185-slip marina is already too small for the flotilla of yachts anchored there from ports as distant as Oslo and Southampton. On the other side of the harbor, near the 15th century Crusader castle that dominates the town, about 200 gulets -- motor-equipped sailboats built by local craftsmen -- take tourists out for a week or a month in the unspoiled waters off Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Halicarnas, an enormous open-air disco, pumps music and shoots lasers until dawn. Ertegun, who was born in Istanbul and came...
...Bodrum is at the center of a tourism explosion that has taken Turkey by surprise. Over the past several years the country has evolved from a quiet, almost isolated land into one of the hottest tourist spots in Europe. Veteran pleasure seekers from all over the world are targeting the country for its gorgeous azure water, unparalleled archaeology and bargain-basement prices. "It was a white spot on the map," says Heinrich Aken, a medical researcher from Bonn. "Everyone has already seen Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco and Algeria. Turkey is the only thing left in the Mediterranean." Explains a Japanese...
...backpacking through the country with his wife Kathy. "All our friends asked us, 'Why would you ever want to go there?' " After first visiting Greece and one of its islands, Kos, about six miles off the Turkish coast, the Pyfers decided on the spur of the moment to see Bodrum. They loved what they found. "The people are gentle and gracious, and the villages are wonderful," says Pyfer. "We'll be back...
...space situation is so bad that officials in Urgup, the main town of the Cappadocia region, are opening up private homes to tourists to ease the shortage. Telephone service is poor almost everywhere in the country, and road conditions are often atrocious. Even a town as large as Bodrum (pop. 13,500) still has no sewer system. Tourists who choose to travel in the eastern areas are advised to bring their own toilet paper...