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COMPANY PROFILE
TJs TOURS is an agency run by a Turkish/Australian couple who
are experienced tour operators. Both management and guides have a long
running reputation for being the Gallipoli tour specialists, having run
daily Gallipoli tours to the ANZAC site for over 9 years. TJs is the
closest agency to the Gallipoli battlefields located in the town of
Eceabat, just 8km from the ANZAC site.
TJ (Ilhami Gezici) is
the most experienced Gallipoli group tour guide in the area as
recommended in guide books published from 2002. Guide books dated
before 2000/1 list TJ as Owner/Manager of Down Under Travel. TJ is now
Owner/Operator of TJs Tours and Accommodation in Eceabat, Turkey.
OUR COMPANY AIM IS....
to bring the ANZAC legend to life
to open travellers eyes to the wonders that Turkey has to offer
to widen the friendships that started in WW1.
OUR GUIDES
TJ Ilhami Gezici was born to guide the battlefields.
His name says it all. The direct translation would be:
Ilhami - inspirational
Gezici wanderer / traveller.
TJ is the Inspirational Traveller.
He has been guiding the Gallipoli sites for over 9 years.
A local boy who studied High School in Eceabat,
TJs love of the battlefields grew from the enthusiasm of
his history teacher who would walk his students around
the cemeteries and tell the stories handed down from the
Turkish soldiers from the area. TJ himself, was lucky
enough to talk to some of these men in his childhood years.
TJ started out as an all 'round Turkey guide, taking groups
for 2 weeks trips around the country he loves. Then he
settled in the area he loves best on the Gallipoli Peninsula
working for a local company guiding the ANZAC and
Cape Helles areas for a long period until he realised that
the company was limiting his enthusiam for the Gallipoli
Legend. He then started off a new company running the
longest day tours to the area, taking in all the sights that are
so entwined in the ANZAC legend. After 5 years, his partner
sold out to another company and TJ went out on his own and
set up TJs TOURS so you, the visitor could experience the
battlefields the best way possible. With guides who care for
the stories of the time and want you to see as much as possible.
BILL Bulent Yilmaz Korkmaz joined TJ to study Gallipoli
in 1995. Friends from Guide School, TJ and Bill became an
unbeatable pair for bringing the ANZAC legend alive.
Bill, as the tourists so happily named him has been guiding
groups on the battlefields for 5 years full time and has a
reputation for being a really nice guy.
He has enhanced the tour business with his lovely manner
and quite achievements. Bill takes on sole responsibility for
the day to day running of the agency over the winter period
when TJ and his wife B, spend the Christmas period in
Australia.
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