I just got back from a 2-1/2 week tour of Turkey, mainly along the southwest coast area (the Aegean).  This looked like perfect fig territory with trees and bushes growing wherever you looked.  Trees were so numerous that people felt free to grab fig off trees as they were walking along the street.

  I took lots of fig pictures, but I'll have to leave the identification to others.  Here is a sample af what I encountered along the coast, and also inland where the climate is not as conducive to rampant fig growth.  What you'll see below is pictures of figs that: I bought the first day in the Istanbul market; were freely available at the breakfast buffet in our hotel; grew in the abandoned hill town of Kayakoy (check out the trunk in picture 7 there); grew in Troy and Perge; grew along the beach; were growing out of stone walls in Ephesus; and grew inland in central Turkey (Ankara).  Not knowing whether these figs would produce in my area, I resisted the temptation to try to bring cuttings back...but it was hard.

Great pics. Hope you had an excellent time.
The question is "Did you get your fill of figs while there?"

I would of been tempted to bring cuttings home too but you don't need to cause yourself any trouble.

very nice pictures,,,thanks

Thanks for the lovely photos. :)

I wish I had been into figs when I visited places in various Mediterranean areas. They must have been everywhere but I just wasn't tuned in. Maybe next time.

Very beautiful photos, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Awsome pictures.  Thanks!

Tony-
We had a great time. It's a dynamic country with amazing food, strong economy, and super-friendly people. I did get my fill of figs at the time, but I'm missing them now!

 That's just amazing!  Fig heaven.   Do you have any idea what the quality is of the figs on those volunteers growing through ruble and walls, hanging from cliffs.  It would be great to know what percent of volunteer trees produce good figs,   Thanks for sharing.

Awesome pictures. Italy is like that also. Along the coast to Portofino they are ALL over. Very exciting for us fig fanatics
Coop

Wonderful pics!  Thanks for sharing!

SoniSoni-
  All I can say is that I didn't have a bad fig the whole time I was there!  It was at the end of the season, so a lot of the trees had been picked, but some of the unattended ones were loaded with fruit.  I checked out some over-ripe ones still on the tree and they were beautiful inside and dripping with fig juice when they were split open.

Here are two more I forgot to post from the coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast.  How about the size of these beauties?

Beautiful pictures!
I am going to travel to Manavgath/Turkey (Region of Antalya, meditaranian coast) on November 1. I hope you left some figs gor me kudzu9! ;-)

I love Turkey since I visited it first in 2005. I believe it is one of the natural homeland of figs.

Sooooo..... do you think there's a much higher rate of good quality seedlings, where they have the fig wasps?  I thought the odds were extremly low for getting good fig fruit from seeds.   Well undaunted, I have a little container I planted with fig seeds from Turkish dried figs...   A member here started some seedlings and was going to share some. I hope he's successful.
Soni

Table for two.  We'll take the one under the fig tree, please...

Wow!  What fantastic pictures!  I would love to visit other countries and see their figs.  Thank you for sharing. 

Feigenbaum-
  The weather should still be great at that time of year in the Antalya region; it only got cool when we turned inland from there to get to Cappadocia and Ankara.  We didn't get as far along the coast as Manavgath, but I know it's lovely.  Enjoy and bring back more fig pictures!

SoniSoni-
  I'll be interested in how your experiment turns out.  The main reason I didn't try to figure out how to get some cuttings home is because I had no way of knowing how well any of them would do without having fig wasps at home to pollinate them.

great pictures, thanks for the visual vacation.  anyone else have vacation picture please post. real nice to look at.

alanmercieca-
  Thanks.  I was wondering what those were, as they were the ones I most frequently had to eat.

I'd give it an 8...high points for taste, color, and texture.  It was not quite as juicy as a few other figs I like, but that's a personal preference, not a complaint.  I'll make a pig of myself again any time I can get my hands on these.

Nice pics!!! Looks like you had a fantastic time just looking for figs. No cuttings??? Oh c'mon you can tell me lol

I would of built a small house of sticks.....using cuttings and stuck a price sticker on it and snuck it in......LOL

Beautiful places and photos, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

Great photo's and thanks for taking the time to post them.