About TJ İLHAMİ GEZİCİ

Tradition & Experience

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 since 1990. 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 Hostel 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 GUIDE

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 since 1990. 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.