Yalova has a museum devoted to yoghurt, and the municipality states that it is the first of its kind in Turkey and one of only a handful anywhere. It is registered with the approval of the ministry of culture and tourism, dated 4 January 2024, and receives visitors within the premises of the Yalova chamber of commerce and industry.
The museum was set up in memory of Muzaffer Ahmet Turna, who began production in 1948 and built Turnalar Yoğurt into one of the town's known names; the aim, as the municipality puts it, is to pass on his sixty-two years of work and craft. Thirty-eight objects are displayed, all of them bearing on how yoghurt was made.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Yalova as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.6 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (113 mm) and lightest in July (25 mm). Long-term means for 1931-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
