(Reuters) - The number of foreign visitors arriving in Turkey rose 2.6% from a year earlier to 7.33 million in July, tourism ministry data showed on Friday.

That compared with 7.15 million foreign visitors in July 2023 and 6.66 million in July 2022. Most visitors during the month of July this year came from Russia, Germany, Britain, Iran and Bulgaria, the data showed.

(Reporting by Can Sezer and Tuvan Gumrukcu; writing by Burcu Karakas)