Over 30 million tourists came to Turkey between January and September 2014 compared with 28.3 million over the same period last year, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry said Thursday.
According to the data released by the ministry, there was an overall six percent rise in the tourist numbers for the first nine months of 2014.
Also, the number of tourists touched 4.32 million this September, which is 2.02 percent more from the same month in 2013. Around 4.26 million tourists were in Turkey in September 2013.
"Tourism in Turkey continues to break records despite there being so much instability surrounding the country," Tourism Minister Omer Celik said.