You could try Yeşilada, an island on Lake Egirdir Credit: Getty In comparison to neighbouring Greece, which can lay claim to a staggering six thousand or so islands and islets, Turkey’s five hundred constitute a mere sprinkling. Of these, just a clutch, three in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s north western shores, the four main outcrops of the traffic-free Princes’ Islands archipelago and the four major Marmara Islands (all eight in the Sea of Marmara south of mega-city Istanbul) constitute what most people would define as an island – many of the others are little more than uninhabited rocks jutting up above the deep blue waters of the Aegean.