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With its people, lifestyle, culture and most importantly, with its history and nature, Turkey is the land of unbelievable. Aegean region has witnessed almost every period of Anatolia, an heir to the culture of centuries with dozens of settlements who filled the pages of history. A paradise among these settlements is Turunç. It is a nice village hidden behind the hills, one of the tourism centers of our day and a former fishing village. In the front the clean bay resemble a crab's claw and the hills that the bay rests upon that makes one think that an eagle sheltering its baby.
Like all others in the area, Turunç has been a continuous settlement from Hellen to Byzantine times.
Long after the Byzantine times it is said that the first settlers were the people known as yoruks, who came down from the Toros Mountains to the village of Osmaniye. Unavoidable sources of life for the nomad are flocks of sheep, agriculture, thyme, bay leaf, garden sage and carob.
A great contagion taught the old settlers to know the sea. While a great percentage of the population moved down the shore, the rest settled in the area which is now named Dereozu Mahallesi. Sea life rapidly changed the habits of the people of Turunç.
The alternatives that the sea has offered increased the diversity of the resources, and fishing became way of living.
However, Turunç is a holiday centre, facilities ranging from pensions to luxury hotels and shopping centres. Its climate enables you to swim 7 months a year (April-October). You can join tours like trekking, jogging, scuba. Of course if you like you can do these activities through out the year, because the coldest day is Turunç is not less than 15 - 20 C. Still in the hottest days (between June and September) cool breezes coming from behind the hills in the west allows you to keep cool.The nearness of Turunç to the neighboring centres provides you with easy transportation .
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