@ Skybird: not true. Though some blockheads exist everywhere..
Turkey tourism stats 2018
https://www.statista.com/chart/10270/tourism-in-turkey/
"While European holidaymakers and business people (notably the British and Germans) are still reluctant to pay a visit to Turkey, visitor numbers nevertheless increased from January to May 2017 by 16.3 percent when compared to the same time frame of the previous year. However, Russian citizens are increasingly making up for the declining tourist numbers from other countries"