May 25 2011 - ISTANBUL Turkey
Most visitors came from Germany, Russia, France and the U.K.
In the first four months of the year, tourist numbers rose 21% from the comparable period of 2010, to 5.96 million.
Tourism is a major industry in Turkey. In 2010 as a whole, some 28.632 million tourists visited Turkey, up 5.7% from a year earlier.
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