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Turkey has everything to make your visit
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beauty, it's people are
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Turkey has everything that a vacation should have
Turks are extremely friendly with
foreign visitors, the cuisine is excellent, and the cities are dotted
with majestic old buildings that blend in a modern era. Turkey has
always been the meeting point for European and Middle Eastern neighbors
and travelers; thereby, becoming an important bridge between East and
West
In recent years Turkey has become a major tourist destination. There
are an enormous variety of things to see and do; ranging from water
sports to mountain trekking, archaeology and history, sight seeing and
dining, to night-clubbing and unforgettable shopping. Whether you leave
Turkey with magnificent carpets, amulets to ward off evil-eye, an
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TURKEY
(Turkiye)
OFFICIAL NAME:
Turkiye Cumhuriyeti (Republic of Turkey)
CAPITAL CITY:
Ankara
FOUNDER OF COUNTRY:
Mustafa Kemal ATATURK (1881-1938)
DECLARATION OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC:
October 29, 1923
POPULATION:
76 million 667.864 thousand (2013)
36.9 million of the population are
female and 37.4 million are male. From 1960s, and 1970s, more than 3
million people have been emigrated to Germany and to other countries.
FUNDAMENTAL FACTS:
The
Republic of Turkey is a democratic, secular and social state governed
by the rule of law; bearing in mind the concepts of public peace,
national solidarity and justice; respecting human rights; loyal to the
nationalism of Ataturk, and based on the fundamental tenets set forth in
the Preamble. Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience,
religious belief and conviction. The Constitution guaranties the equal
rights for men and women.
POLITICAL SYSTEM:
Republican
parliamentary democracy. All Turkish citizens of 18 and over have the
right to register to any Political Party and vote. (Read more)
FORM OF GOVERMENT:
Goverment of "Justice and Development Party" (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi)
CHIEF OF STATE:
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (since August 28, 2014)
HEAD OF GOVERMENT:
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (since May 23rd, 2016)
JUDICIAL POWER:
The highest judicial authority in Turkey is "The Constitutional Court" (Anayasa Mahkemesi)
THE MONETARY UNIT:
'LIRA' , Currency sign: 
The Turkish lira is subdivided into 100 kurus.
See exchange rate provided by International Currency Converter
NATIONAL FLAG:
A white crescent and a star in the middle of it on blood red background
NATIONAL ANTHEM:
"Independence March" (Istiklal Marsi) 
TURKEY'S GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES:
39 00 N, 35 00 E.
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TURKEY(Turkiye) )
is slightly larger than the State of Texas, USA or approximately two
times larger than England... total of 780,580 sq km.(483, 260 sq mi)
of land plus total of 9,820 sq km of lakes). The country lies both in
EUROPE and in ASIA. Turkey is a democratic republic and is also a
unique secular Moslem(Muslim) country in the world.
The
total population is almost 80 millions (July 2012 est.: 79,749.461) and
is divided by 7 geographical and administrative regions:
Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Central Anatolia, East
Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia.
There is no other country in world like Turkey...
_ _ _ _ _ ONE NATION IN TWO CONTINENTS:
Europe & Asia
The
European and Asian sides are divided by the BOSPHORUS(Istanbul Bogazi),
the SEA OF MARMARA(Marmara Denizi) and the DARDANELLES(Canakkale
Bogazi).
About 3 percent of the country occupies the easternmost
tip of southern Europe, a region called Thrace(Trakya) while the
majority of the country lies in Asia.
The coastline of Turkey's four seas are the Aegean Sea (Ege denizi), the
Black Sea(Karadeniz), the Marmara Sea(Marmara denizi) and the
Mediterranean Sea(Akdeniz).  The Country has a total of 7,200 km(4,369 mi) of coastline.
Turkey has 81 provinces. The country is surrounded on its 3 sides by the sea and borders with 7 foreign countries.
Turkey's neighbors are Greece (206km border) and Bulgaria (240km border) on the northwest; Georgia (252km border) and Armenia (268km border) in the northeast, Azerbaijan (9km border) in the north east and Iran (499km border), Iraq (331km border) and Syria (822km border) in the southeast. Cyprus (Kibris) is Turkey's south neighbor on the Mediterranean Sea(Akdeniz). >> Read more...
ISTANBUL is Turkey's largest city and seaport with a
population of more than 14 million. The capital is ANKARA, which has a
population of 3.7 million; meanwhile IZMIR is the third largest city and
the second largest port for trading.
 Although
the large majority of it's people are Turks, ethnically and
linguistically, there is also a small population of Kurds, Greeks,
Armenians, Lazes (people in Black Sea region ), Assyrians and Jews.
The mix of these cultural influences and traditions in Turkey is
one of the reasons that draws tourists to this beautiful country.
Turkey is a new country in an old
land and holds a strategic position on the world map. The modern Turkish
state began with the creation of the Republic of Turkey in the years
immediately following World War I. The creation of the new republic in
the heartland of the old Ottoman empire was achieved in the face of
opposition from internal traditionalist and intervention by foreign
governments.
  When
Pope Benedict XVI visited Turkey at the end of November 2006 he told
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who greeted him at the Istanbul's
Ataturk Airport, " I really wanted to come to Turkey because Turkey has become a bridge between the religions."
 During
his 3 day visit in Turkey, Pope visited to the mausoleum of Mustafa
Kemal ATATURK in Ankara. In Istanbul he visited the famous Blue Mosque,
which is officially known as the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, which was
constructed by the 14th Ottoman Sultan Ahmet I, who ruled between the
years of 1603-1617. But it's widely called the BLUE MOSQUE after its
elaborate blue tiles.
He also visited the old Byzantine Church of
St. Sophia, now is museum in Istanbul. His tour also took him to a
place very close to Ephesus, near Izmir, where the Virgin Mary is
believed to have died.
Pope Benedict XVI is became the second
pontiff to take such as step, and prayed silently in another gesture of
reconciliation to the Muslim(Moslem) world. The late John Paul II had
visited a Mosque in Damascus a trip to Syria.
" I AM LEAVING HALF OF MY HEART IN ISTANBUL "
Benedict said after releasing white doves into air in the garden of the church, on his last day in Turkey.
When you'll visit Turkey you will find that comforting orientation point in the easy balance of Eastern and Western cultures
 The
modern Republic of Turkey was instituted on the 29th of October in 1923
under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938), also called ATATURK
or "Turk Father". Ataturk's goal was to build on the ruins of the
Ottoman Empire and start a new country with a society that was similar
to Western Europe. He equated westernization with the introduction of
technology, the modernization of administration, and the evolution of
democratic institutions.
(Read brief history of ATATURK)
Turkey
has always been the country where commerce between East and West has
flourished for hundreds of years. Today, Turkey is one of the few
countries in the world which is self-sufficient in basic food supply,
including flour, sugar, wheat, and barley.
Turkey, one of the fastest-growing and most vibrant
economies in the world. It's the seventeenth-largest economy in the
world, has a young and growing population, a high and consistently
growing gross domestic product per capita.
Agriculture plays an important role in the Turkish
economy. Turkey's most productive farmlands are in the coastal regions,
which are known for their fertile soil and a mild climate. Wheat, rice,
tea, hazelnut, cotton, tobacco, fruit, vegetables, barley, corn,
potatoes, sugar beets are grown for both domestic consumption and
export. Sheep are the country's most important livestock, and Turkey is
one of the major wool producers in the world. Turkey produces about 65
percent of the world's hazelnut demand.
In regards to natural resources, Turkey is rich in coal, iron,
bauxite, copper, uranium, manganese, antimony, chromium, mercury,
borate, sulfur(sulphur), zinc, borax, meerschaum, marble, and oil.
Turkey's economy is developing at a fast pace with its tourism
and manufacturing leading the way. Turkey has over 500,000 factories and
most of them are in advanced textile industry. Other leading
manufactured products include fertilizer, iron and steel, machinery and
metal products, clothing, motor vehicles, and paper products.
TURKEY... gateway to paradise !
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Turkey
is geographically a bridge between the East and West, as well as a
cultural bridge between the West and the newly freed lands of Central
Asia. Turkey is NATO's sole Moslem (Muslim) member since 1952 and an
ally of Europe and the USA during the Gulf War in Iraq.
 Turkey
is eager to join the European Union (EU), hoping the federation will
boost its sagging economy. It was made a candidate for membership in
December 1999. Putting Turkey on track for full EU membership has been
the goal of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and
Development Party since it came to power in November 2002. The European
Union opened historic membership talks with Turkey on October 4th, 2005.
There are nearly 3.5 million Turkish workers in EU countries, two
million of them in Germany alone.
Turkey is at odds with some it's neighboring countries over newly admitted EU-member Cyprus.
Cyprus
is divided into a Greek Cypriot portion in the south and a Turkish
Cypriot area in the north. In the summer of 2004 with a referendum,
Turkish Cypriots positively accepted a U.N. reunification plan for the
island, but unfortunately, the Greek Cypriots rejected the referendum.
Subsequently, only the Greek part of Cyprus was admitted into the EU. On
December 17th, 2004 Turkey got the European Union Commission approval
date of October 3, 2005 to begin negotiations for its membership into
the EU, with Turkish Cyprus included.
Turkey provided homes for
some 313,000 Bulgarian refugees of Turkish origin expelled from their
homelands in Bulgaria in 1989. Also, during the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey
welcomed nearly half a million Kurds from Northern Iraq, who were
fleeing the torment of S. Hussein's regime.
Since the 1960's, Turkey has been considered to be among the countries
which registered the greatest progress in urbanization. Today, 70% of
this population live in cities and 30% in rural areas. Especially after
the 1950s, the modernization of agriculture and industrial development
resulted in mass internal migration from rural areas to cities. This
internal migration still continues at a tremendous speed, causing a
series of problems such the issue of slums and shanty towns.
At
midnight on January 1, 2005 Turkey dropped six zeros from its currency
when it introduced the YTL (Yeni Turk Lirasi: new Turkish Lira). To ease
the burden on the citizens, both the old and new Lira were used until
January 1, 2006 when the old currency was removed from circulation.
Although the old Lira can no longer be used, people who have them have
until 2016 to convert them to the new currency.
Again please note
that, as of January 1, 2009, the word 'New' ('Yeni' in Turkish) has
been dropped. The currency is again call 'the Turkish Lira'. Although
exchange rates fluctuate, one Turkish Lira () is worth approximately USD 0.45. Conversely, USD 1.00 is approximately 2.21 (as of March 16th, 2014).
(See Currency converter)
We shall make the expansion and rise of Turkish culture in every era the
mainstay of the Republic.
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M.K.ATATURK
Turkey is a secular state and the
consumption of alcohol is permitted, although during the holy month of
Ramadan (Turks call as RAMAZAN), it is considered polite for the visitor
to avoid drinking alcohol.
Although about 98% of Turkey's population is Moslem (Muslim), the
constitution guarantees religious freedom. Thus, There are also small
enclaves of Jews, Roman Catholics, Eastern Roman Catholics, and members
of various other Eastern Orthodox groups. For more details please see 'The Religion' section.
The
Turkish flag is a combination of a vertical white crescent and
five-pointed star on a red background. Military service is mandatory
for males in Turkey and the military age is 20 years old. Turkey always
has had a disciplined and strong military force. TURKIYE is militarily
the largest NATO member, besides the United States Of America.
WHY VISIT TURKEY (Turkiye) ?
The reasons for visiting Turkey are numerous !
  
To begin with, this wonderful land
is blessed with great natural beauty and the history of the land of
Turkey...called ANATOLIA (Anadolu). This incredibly rich history goes
back to ancient times. On this land - many great civilizations emerged
and prospered.
Mrs. Clinton told an invited
audience at the 1800-year-old Roman amphitheater of ASPENDOS(near
Antalya) during her visit in 1999.
 Istanbul
is one of the world's largest cities, with about 16 million people. On
October 29th, 2013, the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey,
'MARMARAY' (pronounced 'marma ray'), a railway tunnel underneath the
Bosphorus Strait has been opened in Turkey which creates a new link
between the Asian and European shores of Istanbul. The tunnel is the
world's first submerged railway connecting two continents, between
Europe and Asia.
MARMARAY registered itself as world's deeper
tunnel in the world (its nearest opponent, 'Bart' in san Francisco, USA)
and runs 180 feet below sea level. The name MARMARAY comes from
combination the name of the 'Sea of Marmara', which lies just south of
tunnel site, with 'ray', the Turkish word for rail.
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Istanbul
Antalya
Kusadasi
(Ephesus)
Bodrum
(Halicarnassus)
Marmaris
(Physcus)
Urgup/Goreme
(Cappadocia)
Didim
(Didyma)
Pamukkale
(Hierapolis)
Konya
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Turkish
(Turkce) is completely phonetic language. Every word pronounces exactly as spelled.
Turkish is a Ural-Altaic language and is from the same origin as Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese and Korean.
ATATURK's
great language reform took place in 1928, when the Turks changeder from
Arabic to Latin characters and many Persian and Arabic words were
replaced by new Turkish one.
Today the Turkish language
impartially spoken in the following countries and regions: Turkey,
Northern Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Turkistan,
Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Macedonia and eastern
Bulgaria.
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Turkey is -A- beautiful country that spans two
continents and it is the showcase of 10 thousand years of the great
cultures of the world.
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