As one of the main producer of hazelnut crops of Turkey, Ordu invites you to a beautiful landscape amid the pleasant sea breezes.

Ordu is a green spot set between the white-capped waves of the Black Sea and the steep slopes of a mountain range that awaits your exploration. In a sense, it is the gateway to the eastern Black Sea region.

Returning from the Babylonian campaign, the survivors of Xenophon's Ten Thousand left Anatolia from Ordu as they retreated to the west. Today, Ordu is a beautiful port situated at the foot of a forested hill. The charming little port town of Ünye is one of the nicest holiday towns on the eastern Black Sea coast and is justly proud of its excellent beaches and camping facilities. Within easy reach of Ünye is the beautiful Çamlık beach.

Ordu is a land with an oxygen-laden atmosphere and a varied landscape encompassing pristine plateaus, clear mountain streams and a cornucopia of corn, hazelnuts and European anchovies.

22km east of Ünye, there are the ruins of the Byzantine Jason Church, now a museum, standing on the promontory of Jason. Legend has it that the Argonauts landed here on their quest for the Golden Fleece.

Along the scenic road towards Ordu, you can find in many fish restaurants a regional specialty, the sea snail, with the most delicious ones in the coastal town "Yalıköy" of Fatsa District.

Among the other places highly recommended to any visitor to Ordu are Boztepe hill, the Ethnography MuseumTaşbaşı Cultural Centre, the Osman Paşa Ablution Fountain and the lively seashore promenade where you can enjoy a cup of well-brewed tea in the pleasant sea breeze. Simply walking the old streets of Ordu that are lined with authentic examples of civic architecture would fill you with admiration and pleasure. Boztepe hill affords a panoramic view of the city from 450m above sea level, with several cafes and restaurants allowing you to enjoy the panoramic cityscape day and night. There are also numerous recreational facilities on the pine-covered slopes and the intrepid can even have a go at paragliding. The birds-eye view from the hill offers the chance to see such old Ordu neighbourhoods as AziziyeSelimiyeZafer-i MilliTaşbaşı and Saray with their old vernacular architecture.

At the Paşaoğlu Konak (mansion), now the Ethnography Museum, visitors can see that a rich and influential 19th century family lived in this area. The mansion has exceptional masonry work, with stones brought from Ünye, timber imported from Romania and glazed tiles shipped from Europe.

The Taşbaşı Cultural Centre, located in the conservation area of the Taşbaşı neighbourhood, was built by Orthodox Christian locals as a church in 1853. It has a rectangular plan set along the east-west axis with three naves and three apses, and it was built with dressed stone masonry throughout. The building was opened to the public as a cultural centre after renovation, and today it serves as a venue for symposiums, conferences, exhibitions, shows and theatrical performances. The ablution fountain, known as the Osman Paşa Şadırvanı, has strikingly tall columns bearing its cupola and was rebuilt in 1997 as a strict replica of the original erected in 1842. The 19th-century church and the pretty beach of Güzelyalı are also worth visiting. The Çambaşı Plateau offering beautiful mountain views lies 58km further south at an altitude of 1850m. The Keyfalan Plateau at 2000m height is another popular summer destination for local residents.

Ordu has the distinction of producing most of Turkey's annual hazelnut crop which is the defining element of social life there. With the harvest comes the time for the common fun of weddings and other ceremonies and festivities. Every July the town hosts the Golden Hazelnut Festival, where you must absolutely taste the delicious chocolate nut candy. At the onset of August the hazelnut orchards become full of life and the young and the old, men and women sing ballads reflecting their lives while gathering the hazelnut harvest.

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This Consent and Information Document (“Information Document”) regulates terms and conditions for use of the data notified by Users of services (“Patients”) and/or gained from Patients during delivery of Oba Tourism Organization Adversiment  and Publishing Limited Company (“Medithrace”) with headquarter at Ertuğrul Mah. Orduevi Cad. No 2 Süleymanpaşa -  Tekirdağ pursuant to Personal Data Protection Law (Nr. 6698)  activities performed to deliver services, including “Free-of-charge Second Opinion and Health Counseling” (“Services”) at contract partner hospitals (“Hospitals”) with details written below.
 
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Your personal health details are derived from “your medical reports, details about medications you take, epicrisis, imaging studies, imaging reports and pathology reports” that you submit us and they are shared with or disclosed to partner hospitals in Turkey and their relevant personnel in order to create your treatment plan.

Which data is processed?
 
This article lists the data that is regarded as personal data in Personal Data Protection Law (Nr. 6698) and processed by Medithrace for the services delivered to patients. Unless otherwise is stated, “Personal Data” and “Data with Specific Quality (Sensitive”) shall have following meanings pursuant to terms and conditions of this Information Document. 

Hospital collects following data that are notified by Patients. 
 
●    Identity - Address Details: Name surname, identity number, gender, date of birth, business or personal e-mail, phone number, home address or business address that are written on relevant forms,
●    Health Evaluation Details: Your medical history, medical reports, details of medications you take, epicrisis, imaging studies, imaging reports and pathology reports.
●    Extra data: Other health and/or personal information that is required for service delivery and not covered in above written data classes. 

Pursuant to Articles 3 and 7 of Personal Data Protection Law (Nr. 6698) and regulations to be issued by the Committee, personal data or sensitive data shall not cover the data that is anonymized by deleting your identity details in an irreversible manner and terms and conditions of this Information Document, hereby, shall not apply to such data. 

Why do we use your data?

Your data is shared with or disclosed to physicians, healthcare staff and other relevant hospital personnel to help our firm provide you with “free-of-charge second opinion” service that is rendered in relation with your probable treatment. Thus, they are used to have contract hospitals create a complete treatment plan and submit estimated cost.

Hospitals may process the personal data notified by the Patient and the new data derived by the Hospital from the personal data in order to help the Patient use the Services, deliver the Services, fulfill the intended use of the personal data specified in this Information Document, fulfill the liabilities arising out of the content of Services and meet any and all legal obligations.

In addition, the Hospital may process the personal data and disclose them to third parties without any need to consent of the Patient pursuant to Articles 5, 6 and 8 of Personal Data Protection Law (Nr. 6698) and/or in the presence of exemptions in the relevant legislation.

Allowed Disclosures
 
Medithrace shall be entitled to disclose the personal data notified by the Patient and the new data derived by the hospital from the personal data in order to render the Services, improve the patient experience, improve Services and achieve any one of the goals specified under the section “Why do we use your data?” of this Information Policy.

Your personal, clinical and genetic data collected pursuant to this Information Document, hereby, shall be processed in line with the provisions written in this document and the provisions and security measures dictated by relevant legislation of the country, where the data is stored and/or processed.

Your Right to Access Your Data and Your Correction Requests

 The patient shall have the following rights by applying to Medithrace;

●    Learning if the personal data is processed or how it is processed,
●    Requesting relevant information, if personal data is processed,
●    Learning the intent of processing personal data and whether they are used in line with the intention, 
●    Learning local and international third parties who are shared the personal data,
●    Requesting correction, if personal data is processes incompletely or incorrectly,
●    Requesting correction, deletion or disposal of the personal data in line with the provisions set by relevant legislation; requesting notification of the correction, deletion or disposal to third parties that are transferred the personal data,
●    Raising an objection to a negative outcome arising out of analyzing the data exclusively with automated systems,
●    Requesting compensation of loss and damage that arises out of illegal processing of personal data. 

The patient may post the request in writing to Ertuğrul Mah. Orduevi Cad. No: 2 Süleymanpaşa -  Tekirdağ or e-mail the request letter to info@medithrace.com. Medithrace shall issue and transfer the positive or negative response in writing or electronically pursuant to the above mentioned requests, provided the grounds of negative response are notified. The Patient undertakes that the details subject to this Information Policy are complete, correct and up-to-date and that they will be immediately updated in case of any change Medithrace shall assume no responsibility, if up-to-date information is not notified by the Patient.

Duration of Storage for Personal Data


Medithrace shall store the personal data notified by the Patient for the interval that the Services are actually delivered in order to fulfill liabilities set in this Information Policy, hereby, and arise out of the content of Services to help the Patient use the Services.

Our Measures and Commitments for Data Security

Pursuant to provisions set by relevant legislation or mentioned in this Information Policy, Medithrace commits to take necessary technical and administrative measures to ensure appropriate level of security in order to prevent illegal access to the personal data and/or illegal data processing.
Possible Changes in Information Policy
Medithrace shall be entitled to amend provisions of this Information Policy at any time, provided the amended policy is accessible at the Web Site, www.medithrace.com. The amendments made in the Information Policy by Medithrace shall be put into force immediately after the amended provisions are publicized.

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