Gault&Millau launches in Turkey
Gault&Millau strengthens its international presence and will offer its selection of the best addresses in Turkey from 2024. This is the 14th country to join the Yellow Guide editions. This new publication was announced in early January in Istanbul, at the Six Senses Kocatas Mansions hotel, in the presence of our CEO, the Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism and a Turkish press editor.
Gault&Millau announces the arrival of the Guide Jaune in Turkey, in association with the Sözen press group. Its founder, Gökmen Sözen, has extensive experience in the world of gastronomy and the media: after a career in Turkish television, he created the magazine FoodinLife in 2007. Strongly committed to promoting Turkish gastronomy, Gökmen Sözen has organized competitions such as Pastry of Istanbul and Chefs of the Future, as well as gastronomic tours of the country via his Gastroway brand. "We are proud to have added a new stone to the edifice that is Turkish gastronomy, which shines throughout the world", he enthused.
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Proof of a rich gastronomic culture
Özgül Özkan Yavuz, Turkey's Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, welcomed the announcement:"We are delighted that Turkish cuisine is now included in the Gault&Millau guide, which holds an important and respected place in the gastronomic world. Thanks to our rich gastronomic culture, and the increase in the number and quality of our chefs, we have reached a level where we can compete with other major countries in the sector. One of our strategic objectives is to attract gourmet tourists to our country, to promote Turkish cuisine worldwide, and to have the best foreign gastronomy on offer in our country. The arrival of Gault&Millau in Turkey represents an important step in this promotion. I congratulate those involved in this arrival, and especially Gökmen Sözen."
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Bilingual English-Turkish edition
Patrick Hayoun, CEO of Gault&Millau International, was keen to "welcome Turkey, which offers us a new gastronomic scene full of potential. This new guide will be published in 2024, in a bilingual English-Turkish edition, with a selection of 300 restaurants out of the 500 that will be visited by our local investigators. The regions prioritized for this year are those around the Marmara and Aegean Seas."The Turkish edition of the Yellow Guide will come out in 2024, by which time the experts trained by Gault&Millau will have completed all the surveys.
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