Turkey Home is a country branding project of Turkey by courtesy of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Launched in April 2014, the brand aims to build a strong, sustainable, sincere, convincing and comprehensive, ways of communication with all travel audience from all over the world in order to create awareness of Turkey's cultural and historical heritage, natural beauties, arts and sciences, touristic sites, values, traditions, facilities, social and daily life, etc. By promoting country's all attractions and emphasizing its geographic and cultural diversity, the brand is designed to associate Turkey with the concept of "HOME" as it has welcomed, hosted and fostered a myriad of identities, cultures and civilizations throughout history.
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Beside other offline classical media such as outdoor, press and TV, Turkey Home is also active across social and digital media platforms of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn.
History
At the beginning of 2014, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism set forth a new promotional branding strategy with Turkey Home. Until then, the Ministry had various worldwide promotion campaigns in many offline and online platforms. But with the inauguration of Turkey Home, the Ministry decided to accord and bring all its promotional campaigns in conformity with Turkey Home.
Just after 16 months, the brand grew to the 2nd among all other competitive tourism brands of cities and countries in terms of total number of fans and followers across all its social and digital media platforms. By August 2016, Turkey Home expanded its global audience to more than six and a half million individuals, still holding the 2nd rank globally.