I am familiar with the Turkish Coast. I am from Turkey and speak the language. The summer of 2011, we will cruise the Southwest Turkey. I purchased this book and went through the entire length. It has just about all the information one needs to safely and enjoyably cruise the area. Aside from cultural information, food, language etc. it has detailed information about anchorages, boat harbors and other information needed during a cruise. Every bay and anchorage is mapped and useful soundings, rocks, reefs, shallow areas are indicated. It even includes the coastal restaurants one can visit moored at a small village! We have also purchased the charts of the area but I think they aren't as detailed as the drawings in this book. Photographs are great; customs clearing, peculiarities of legal and authority figures are sensitively described. I will have more detailed review after we use the book next summer but I feel very confident having it with us while sailing our chartered boat from Bodrum to Kas and back.