My husband and I spend a wonderful few days with Remzi in Cappadocia last spring (2014). Remzi was the best guide we had during our week-long stay in Turkey. In fact he was by far the best guide we've ever had the privilege of knowing. He met us at the airport and together with the lovely driver took us to our hotel and then met us the next morning for two days of fantastic touring. He was extremely knowledgeable about Cappadocia's fascinating history, art, architecutre and customs and was the friendliest and warmest person we met in Turkey. We learned so much from him about Cappadocia and about Turkey. We had fascinating discussions about history and culture that we will remember always. We highly recommend Remzi to anyone interested in visiting Cappadocia and we hope that one day we'll be able to return to his charming city and meet up with him again. Or be able to host him here in Washington! Thank you Remzi for making our stay in Cappadocia such a magical and memorable one!!

Our flight arrival to Cappadocia was interrupted due to bad weather. Remzi did the best he could so that we could get as much as we could for our short stay there. With him as our guide we feel confident that every aspect of our stay was taken care of which is important when you are visiting a new country. Really appreciate his knowledge and love for his country and we thoroughly enjoyed his company during the tour.

We rarely respond positively to requests for references as there have been many cases of legal action against the reference writer for even minor issues in the UK. However, in this instance, we have no problems in highly recommending Remzi as he was singly the best guide we have had the fortune to come across. That has to be taken in the context that we are former tour operators specialising in expensive up-scale yachting holidays and we employed our own guides, etc. We would certainly have employed Remzi as the senior guide if we had operated holidays in your area as he fulfils the role of guide extremely well and he uses his initiative to ensure his clients get exactly what they want from his guiding. We are rather over-active and want to see as much as possible in a short time. Whilst history and culture are interesting for us, we are not academics - something that many guides cannot separate. Remzi got it spot on; he can put across the story in whatever detail and depth you want and importantly can keep you interested and amused with his side comments which give colour and life to the explanation. Everything was said with a smile in his voice. Remzi's planning was impeccable; we saw what were obviously the 'trophy' locations early in the day before the crowds arrived and we explored the more remote areas during the middle of the day. We enjoy finding local interest off-the normal tourist trail so we visited a couple of houses where a very traditional lifestyle was being conducted. He also leant of our interest in food and we were taken to an excellent non-tourist restaurant where we enjoyed local dishes and drinks. Without a doubt, if we wanted simply to look at a few places just to say we had done this and that without delving into history, he would still have made the trip memorable. We write for a number of magazines and websites, the main article we wrote on the trip to Cappadocia in the website: (http://www.motorbar.co.uk/trav_cappadocia.htm) cites Remzi in the introduction: "We found the guidebooks a little wanting in assisting us to organise the right balance and ingredients for our purposes; some were even misleading on basic data. However, we were introduced to Euphrates Tours who responded to our abnormally demanding brief with a well-balanced programme, together with great ground arrangements. We found that the Euphrates' guide — Remzi (pronounced 'Ramsey') — is highly respected throughout the area for his extraordinary in-depth knowledge on the history of the region. Not only is he a great communicator who can convey this knowledge with a stimulating freshness, but he also has a wicked sense of humour". At that time, the website was receiving 800,000 hits per month. We plan to return to Cappadocia and we would be very disappointed if we had to take any other guide than Remzi. I am sure that same reaction would be found in all the guests he has lead.

We were a group of six. Most of us had visited many ancient sites in the world, but this was our first time in Turkey. Remzi met us in Istanbul and guided us from there to points in southeast Turkey to Cappadocia and finally Ankara. He is very well versed in archeology and ancient and modern religions. Remzi's knowledge of Christian, Islamic and Judaic culture, history, beliefs and practices was invaluable. Each one of us gained an insight and understanding of their similarities and contrasts. This made our tour very interesting and what we learned has been very beneficial to each of us many times since. When it comes to history and archeology, I can't think of anyone more knows and loves them than Remzi. He guided us thru places well known to us: Troy, Pergamum and Ephesus; and places not known at all: Aphrodisias, Konya and Sultanhani Caravenserai. But the most spectacular place Remzi shared with us was his home area, Cappadocia. After our trip, I have organized two other tours similar to ours. Each time the first thing I did was try to schedule Remzi as the guide. Remzi is a wonderful guide to a spectacular country. Anyone fortunate to travel with him will enjoy every minute and go home much wiser.

My husband and I spent a wonderful week with Remzi visiting Istanbul and Cappadocia. He shared his vast knowledge and love for his country with us. No doubt, one of the best guides we have ever had the privilege to know.