Turkey 2024 - would you feel safe?

[FromHereToSomewhere]

Hi, we've now changed our original holiday plans as a roadtrip wasn't looking realistic. DH persuaded me that Turkey would be nice and the area / hotel does look beautiful.

But I've read a lot about terrorism risk in the country, including targeting the aviation industry, which really terrifies me.

We would be staying in the Olu Deniz / Fethiye area so not in any of the areas the Government says not to travel to (near the Syria border) and tourist terror attacks in the past have been in Istanbul, I think.

But with all that's going on in the world at the moment with Yemen, Israel/Gaza etc do you think Brits are more of a target at the moment and is Turkey a place you'd feel safe travelling to or not?

Olu Deniz is beautiful and incredibly safe. I would have no issue going there.

My daughter lived in Istanbul for most of the last three years until last week. As a British Muslim married to a Jordanian, she faced a lot of discrimination, as did her husband, but she took sensible precautions, as she would in any city, and never felt at all unsafe. They travelled around the country regularly, and again, didn't feel unsafe.

I didn't feel unsafe in Turkey but expect to be hassled if out of resort. I'd say hassle is level 3 assuming 0 is none and 5 is won't leave you alone.

Tunisia was far worser

We are going to Turkey this year as we do most years. I have been going for 30 years and have never felt unsafe.
The terrorism warnings they give are for the south eastern borders with Syria and Iraq, which are about 1,000 miles from Olu Deniz.
Turkey is an amazing country, I am sure you will love it.

The actual risk of encountering terrorism is negligeable almost everywhere. It just gets vastly more coverage than any other sort of crime. Likewise, plane crashes get thousands of pages of reports, while car crashes get 30 seconds on the news, and even then only if four or more people are killed.

One of my favourite statistics is that for the entire duration of the Troubles, 1969-1997, there was not a single year in which the murder rate in Northern Ireland exceeded the murder rate in Los Angeles County. And yet if you had told people you were going to Belfast for a weekend break they would have thought you were crazy.