There are fantastic roads in Northern Turkey but the route shown seems to go along the black sea coast - that is nothing special and I didn't really remember anything from it.
Just a bit further inland if you go through the towns of Agri, Erzincan and Erzurum the roads are ace, good scenery, light traffic and a really good fish place in the middle of nowhere that offered me a free bed.
If you do it in winter it is absolutely freezing. Right now it should be nice, but the southern route might be very hot.
I haven't done any riding south of Ankara so can't comment, but have had many reports that in South West Turkey my fellow Brits have created an unpleasant atmosphere where tourists are seen as drunken cash-cows or targets for sexual advances. Like I said, that's second hand opinion and particular to the area around Marmaris.
On the whole I rate all the bits of Turkey I've been too, apart from the bill at the petrol stations - although in most of the country what you save by not drinking  makes up for the cost of go-go juice!
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