Beyond Istanbul's crowds and the Aegean's beach resorts lies a corner of the country where cliffside monasteries rise from misty forests, alpine lakes ring themselves in morning fog, and shepherds still drive their flocks up to summer pastures each June. This guide takes readers deep into Turkey's eastern shoulder, a region shaped by Greek traders, Byzantine emperors, and Ottoman sultans, and still home to the Laz and Hemshin communities who give it a character found nowhere else in the co...