KALKAN

Kalkan is a Turkish Mediterranean fishing village gone upscale to resort status.

Kalkan, located to the southernmost end of the Teke peninsula, by the small bay of the same name, is a new settlement unit. Obviously, the first settlers of the area were the Tekelioğlu Turkomans who first immigrated to the Gömbe and Elmalı plateaux and, then, moving down to the south, settled and built their villages in the Eşen Valley and the Yeşilköy-Fırnaz plains. Some of the Turkomans who settled in Yeşilköy laid the foundations of today’s district of Kalkan which is by the bay on the other side of the hill of the same name in the east of the village. For years, Kalkan remained as a small community annexed to Yeşilköy. In recent years, however, due to the very low rate of humidity of its fine air and the hotel, motel and pension house businesses, fish restaurants, cafeterias and marina, it has become a popular centre for tourism. Located in the east of Kalkan is the KAPUTAŞ BEACH with its strand measuring 60 m long by 20 m wide between the sheer falez rocks of 25 m height, is the best known natural bay formed by the Taurus mountains running perpendicular to the shore. In the east of the beach is the BLUE CAVE, with a diameter of 60x70 m, having a pebbly strand and formed of sea erosion beneath the falez rocks. The cave is accessible by touristic boats.