Turunç plajı

This guide to Turunç Beach in Muğla traces the cove from a small sponge-diving hamlet — home to just five families around a century ago, with no road in or out — through the 1970s arrival of the first travelers who found their way down the hillside track. It follows how diving here shifted from harvesting sponges by hand to exploring the bay's sunken wrecks and hidden caves. Electricity did not reach the cove until the 1980s, decades after the sea itself had already become the whole economy.