Southeast Turkey with Mick and Trudie. Part 1 Mardin

Mardin, Southeast Turkey. Exploring southeast Turkey with Mick and Trudie Scarsbrook (Mick Amca), Part 1 of a 5 part series
Mardin is a place in South Eastern Turkey close to the Turkish/Syrian border.
It’s part of Turkey that both myself and Trudie have never explored before.
We made the decision to visit this area and include Hasankeyf, Midyat, Nemrut Dag (Nemrut mountain) near Adiyiman, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa (Urfa), Gobeklitepe and to help get rid of the stigma attached that can put off western tourists visiting because of its close proximity to the Syrian border.
Day 3 into our tour and whilst in Mardin news broke out that American troops were pulling out of Syria and Turkey was going to make a safe zone for the Syrian refugees along the Syrian border.
Ours families back in the UK were seeing the news on TV of towns being shelled on the border and were concerned and worried for our safety!
We watched the news in our hotel room on the Turkish TV and it also was showing shelling of houses.
At this point I put out a short film expressing we were changing our travel plans and would head North away from the border.
This actually sparked a lot of comments and one lady in particular wrote “you have gone to the area to aim at showing the reality that it is not how people see it on the news. Surely by heading North you will just be the ones adding to the stigma and put visitors off coming to the area”!
This ladies comment was absolutely right. So we chose not to listen to the news and actually listen to the people who were living in the area itself.
We are so glad we continued our journey, and not once did we feel in danger from anything or anyone.
Please watch and enjoy our five part series to the amazing, Southeast Turkey.
Links where we stayed in Mardin: Hotel Kayanova Hotel and Merdin Hotel
We used Tripadvisor extensively, for most of our travel.
Transport we used: (flights to Mardin - all via instanbul)
Pegasus airlines dalaman to Istanbul
Turkish airlines Istanbul to Mardin
Skyscanner to check other airlines
Car hire from Merdin Otomotiv 04822131599 or 05424224747 Özkan they also picked us up from the Airport in Mardin
My Camera gear used in this Video
Lumix GH5 https://amzn.to/32qR8aX
DJi Mavic Air https://amzn.to/2JXpKLc
Sony AX53 Camcorder https://amzn.to/2NrZomU
Rode Wireless Go microphone https://amzn.to/2KwRYNf