Living in Alanya, in numbers we can point at

Every claim on this page has a source at the bottom of it. That is not a formality — most of what is written about this coast is written to sell it, and the numbers repeated everywhere (days of sunshine, kilometres of beach) turn out to have no institution behind them at all. What follows is only what can be pointed at.

The number that matters

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute’s address-based population records, Alanya’s population includes 36,465 resident foreign nationals — about one in ten people in the district. The largest groups are Russian, Ukrainian, German and Kazakh, and 82 countries are represented in total.

For a buyer, that is not trivia. It means the doctor, the school, the notary and the hardware shop have all dealt with a foreign customer before. It means the winter is not empty of people like you.

The town was a capital before it was a resort

Alanya Municipality’s own history records that Alaaddin Keykubat took the castle in 1221 and renamed the city Alâiye, and that the Seljuks used it as a second capital and winter seat alongside Konya. The town on the slope is not a development that appeared with the airports; the airports arrived at a place that was already there.

That matters more than it sounds. A town with its own history has a centre, a market and a reason to exist in February.

Where the houses are

The neighbourhoods that recur in this firm’s delivered catalogue — Sugözü, Güllerpınarı, Hacet, Oba, Saray, Kadıpaşa — are not resort strips. They are where the town lives. Avsallar, at the western end of the corridor, is the newer, quieter end.

Getting here

Gazipaşa-Alanya is 47 km away and is the airport a resident actually uses. Antalya is 125 km, and it is the one with the long-haul connections. The second figure is the state airports authority’s own; the first is the client’s, because Gazipaşa is run under a concession and publishes no distance of its own.