Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I've been told that in Turkey, Bodrum has a reputation as the place to go for wild behavior that elsewhere wouldn't be allowed on religious grounds. There's an all night very loud nightclub, men and women wear shorts on city street, gay couples openly hold hands in public, and women sunbathe topless on public beaches right in the city, next to a public sidewalk. [I don't consider these examples to be bad, but I've been told by people from Turkey that they wouldn't be acceptable--or just wouldn't be done--in Istanbul or Ankara. Yet you also see women in traditional modest dress; I've been told that they come from villages in eastern Turkey to work in very low level jobs in the area.]
Originally Posted by
tcmb99
About MSPEconomist comments, I personally think he was joking and will not take it seriously as it is one of the most ignorant things I have heard about Turkey lately.
Out of genuine curiosity, what was so ignorant about his comment?
The fact that Bodrum has a reputation for wild behavior among locals which would not be tolerated elsewhere in the country on cultural norm grounds?
The reason I ask, is that you can make that same claim for many other locations on the luxury-travel map (Phuket in Thailand, Capri / Porto Cervo in Italy, Ibiza in Spain, Dubai for the gulf, etc.), and they would be reasonably accurate.