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UNESCO World Heritage for Turkey |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 16 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Turkey to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Turkey for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Turkey below.
 | 1985 - Historic Areas of Istanbul | Cultural site |
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| 1985 - Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia | Mixed site |
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| 1985 - Great Mosque and Hospital of Divrigi | Cultural site | |
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| 1986 - Hattusha: the Hittite Capital | Cultural site | |
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| 1987 - Nemrut Dag | Cultural site | |
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| 1988 - Xanthos-Letoon | Cultural site | |
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| 1988 - Hierapolis-Pamukkale | Mixed site |
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| 1994 - City of Safranbolu | Cultural site | |
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| 1998 - Archaeological Site of Troy | Cultural site |
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| 2011 - Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex | Cultural site | |
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| 2012 - Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük | Cultural site | |
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| 2014 - Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape | Cultural site | |
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| 2014 - Bursa and Cumalikizik: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire | Cultural site | |
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| 2015 - Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape | Cultural site | |
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| 2015 - Ephesus | Cultural site |
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| 2016 - Archaeological Site of Ani | Cultural site |
 Historic Areas of Istanbul |  Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia |  Nemrut Dag |  Xanthos-Letoon |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Turkey are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - Mevlevi Sema ceremony |
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| 2008 - Arts of the Meddah, public storytellers |
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| 2009 - Âsiklik (minstrelsy) tradition |
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| 2009 - Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz, Nevruz |
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| 2009 - Karagöz |
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| 2010 - Kirkpinar oil wrestling festival |
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| 2010 - Traditional Sohbet meetings |
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| 2010 - Semah, Alevi-Bektasi ritual |
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| 2011 - Ceremonial Keskek tradition |
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| 2012 - Mesir Macunu festival |