Turkish high speed train - Istanbul to Konya

Welcome to another exciting video on our channel! Join me on a 5-hour journey from Istanbul to Konya on a modern turkish YHT Highspeed train in business class. Get ready to experience the charm of Anatolia, modern travel, and onboard gastronomy.

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00:00 Introduction
00:31 Departure from Istanbul Söğütlüçeşme
02:24 The journey
03:30 Gastronomy
05:05 Crossing the Köroğlu mountains
07:14 Price and booking
09:14 Racing through the highlands
10:31 Arriving in Konya

[bibendum]

Haydarpaşa wasn't "closed" per se. It's under renovation following a big fire that destroyed most of it's roof. They also discovered a massive archeological site under the platforms during renovation, so that delays it's opening further. The building itself is practically fully renovated right now, and most of the work is focused on figuring out how to reconnect the tracks and build the platforms without damaging the archeological site. It's planned to be opened again in a couple years.

[shen_baba]

The way you pronounce Turkish words is very impressive

[AHMET]

Your comment about stations aren't used efficiently is absolutely true. There are only around 18 YHT services from İstanbul to Ankara and Konya together, that means 18 coming back, in total 36 times trains use the 3rd line in the Anatolian side of İstanbul. There is only one night train between İstanbul and Ankara.

[erkankarabulut]

Thanks for the great video, it was very nice and detailed!

[KenanTurkiye]

Heres something you may find interesting. :)

The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :)

Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''...

...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye,
as Turkish is much much older.

Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.

Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas....

...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish

....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.

In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.

Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.

So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )

So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )

Best wishes. ;)

[idontknow]

Didn't know they had class 374 trains in turkey

[mohammedalawadhi]

Can you buy tickets directly from stations or I must buy them online only

[ngolobelgrade]

Great video ! Only thing i didnt hear and didnt understand is how you succeed to buy a ticket online, you said through friends ___ but i didnt understand word ? Danke im Voraus

[samtrak]

Did you swtich to a seat with a better view? Can you choose your seat from a seat cjhart when you purchase your ticket?

[kanchanananayakkara]

Hi, Enjoyed your video, and thank you! Quick question.. When booked online, do we have to collect any tickets at the station or can we board with the online booking proof?

[mohammadakter]

You mentioned many things while travelling in the train, how actually you recognised those things ( tunnel, old bridge).? By using Google map or from memory.?
I mean you are not maybe from turkiye...!

[arifdemircioglu]

They building new railways in so ww can travel with 350 kmh soon in turkiye

[Chrizz]

@1:21: I just cannot believe, that absolutely nobody helps this poor suffering dog, who needs obviously urgent help! 😢 Is it too much to google an animal saving organisation within the metropolis of Istanbul? Hopefully somebody did it meanwhile. Maybe you know, if this happened, during you have been there filming?

[sayedyusuf]

বাংলা দেশের সরকারের উচিত যোথ ভাবে বাংলা দেশের মধ্যে থেকে তুরস্কো মধ্যে এই সব ধরনের টেন চালু করা একান্ত এখন পানির উপরে হাই ইসপিরিট টেন চালানো যায় বিবাগকে কাজে লাগানো গেলে পারা যাবে ইনসোআললাহ

[barisgrind]

bro what are you doing in Konya sdahdsahdsahdsasdh one of the most bigot city in Tr

[KullaniciKullanici-zb]

IZMIR ESKIŞEHIR YHT HATTI BITTI HERALDE AÇILIŞ TÖRENİ NE ZAMAN