Eid holiday rush in Harran

ŞANLIURFA (AA) – Harran district of Şanlıurfa, one of the oldest settlements in the world, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Temporary List, is crowded due to the Eid al-Adha holiday. Harran, which has been an uninterrupted settlement since 6 thousand BC and was once the capital of the Assyrians and Umayyads, takes its visitors on a cultural journey with its conical-domed houses and historical places, as well as its people in local costumes.

The influx of visitors to the historical district, which hosts thousands of local and foreign tourists every year with the ruins of the first Islamic university and the Grand Mosque from the Umayyad period, reached its peak during the Eid al-Adha holiday. Many visitors came to the district taking advantage of the holiday, making both the people of Harran and the tourism professionals happy. Tourism manager Ömer Özyavuz, in his statement to the AA correspondent, said that there was a significant increase in the number of guests coming to Harran compared to the previous holidays.

Expressing that they were satisfied with the density, Özyavuz said, 90 percent of the visitors coming to Şanlıurfa and Göbeklitepe within the scope of the GAP tour come to our district. We expect this density to continue to increase from now on. We expect Harran to become a tourism center with the completion of tourism-related studies in the district. he said. Salih Taşkesen, one of the visitors, said that they came to Harran by taking advantage of the holiday.

Stating that he saw Harran for the first time and was pleased with it, Taşkesen said that he recommended everyone to come and see it. Remzi Kılıç stated that he came to the city from Bursa with his family and they were satisfied, adding: “We wanted to see the historical places.” This place is also very nice, I recommend it to everyone. he said. Sultan Badem, one of the visitors from Izmir, stated that he came to Şanlıurfa, taking advantage of the good weather during the holiday.