ANKARA
Some 2.3 million foreign tourists visited Türkiye in February, pointing to a strong 22.6 percent increase from the same month of last year, data from the Tourism and Culture Ministry have shown.
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In the first month of 2024, Türkiye welcomed more than 2 million foreign holidaymakers, which marked a 2.1 percent annual increase.
In the January-February period, foreign tourist arrivals in Türkiye rose 12 percent from a year ago to reach 4.34 million.
Iranians claimed the top spot in the list of international visitors in the first two months of 2024. Some 438,000 Iranians visited Türkiye in January-February, a robust 94 percent increase compared to the same period of 2023.
The number of Russian tourists, however, dropped 14.6 percent year-on-year to 433,654, while visitors from Bulgaria rose 8.6 percent to 345,301, showed the ministry data.
Germans ranked third in the list. In the first two months of 2024, Türkiye welcomed 330,771…