In the first eight months of 2025, museums and archaeological objects of Turkey attracted 21,610,964 visitors. This is stated in a press release from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the country.
, according to the agency, the most visited historical place for the period under consideration was the archaeological complex of Izmir-EF with an indicator of 1,741,547 guests.
The following are followed by archaeological complexes of Pamamukkale (Hioropolis) in the Denizley Province (1 613 357), Goreme (766 937) and Pashabagar (753 638).
The Galata Tower in Istanbul took fifth place among the most visited places, 651 197 people visited there. The sixth place with 497,394 visitors was taken by the Archaeological Monument of Göbekli-Tepe in Shanlyurf, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The top ten leaders also included the underground city of Kaymakla (460,262), the Republican Museum in Ankara (454 048), as well as the monastery and managed the underground city of Deerinskaya S. 392 976 and 375 870 by visitors, The head of the department wrote about this in his account on the social network of the Turkish platform NSOSYAL.