Originally Posted by
David-A
UK Foreign Office is advising against all but essential travel to Hatay, which would include Antakya and also Izmir...
No, they say that there are demonstrations in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, and that people should avoid them (the demos, not the cities!). Pretty logical, I'd say (my father gave me the same piece of advice more than 50 years ago

), but they really don't say that one should not travel to Izmir.