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General information about Turkey

Maps  Location and Geography  Cities  Visas  Beaches  Mountains  Rivers  Lakes  Seas  History  Culture

Official name:…............…………………..Republic of Turkey 
Capital: …..............…………………………Ankara 
System of Government:…..............……..Multiparty Republic 
Area:…...............……………………………779,452 Sq Km (300,948 Sq Mi)
Estimated 2000 population: .……………..67,686,600

Maps:

Turkey on the Earth
Turkey in Europe
Turkey between Europe, Africa, Asia
Turkey with Greece and Bulgaria
Western Turkey
Eastern Turkey
Turkey with Syria, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia
South Aegean and West Mediterranean Turkish Coast
If you want more country info please visit www.expedia.com
If you want more road info please visit www.viamichelin.com

Location and Geography :

Turkey is located on the Anatolian Peninsula in between West Asia and Eastern Thrace. It is bound by the Aegean Sea to the west, Bulgaria and the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the northeast, Armenia and Iran to the east and Iraq, Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The country is divided into five physical regions. (1.) The Anatolian Plateau, which forms the heartland of the country. (2.) The Eastern Highlands, which comprise the eastern third of Turkey. (3.) The Aegean coastland of the Bursa Plains, the Plains of Troy and Izmit Valley. (4.) The Mediterranean coastland and (5.) the narrow coastal ribbon of the Black Sea. 

Cities:

Capital city: Ankara
Other Major cities: Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Adana, Antalya, Trabzon, Erzurum and Konya

Visas:

Turkish visas are all multiple entries and are valid for three months. Get it on arrival at the airport or harbour. Only some countries need a visa before coming to Turkey. You will be charged extra money if you stay after your visa has expired.  5 days before your visa expires you can visit one of the nearby Greek islands and get a new one. (Chios - Cesme, Samos - Kusadasi, Kos - Bodrum, Rodos - Marmaris or Fethiye )

Beaches:

 Ölüdeniz is Turkey's most famous beach with its beautiful blue lagoon (Oludeniz - Fethiye), Butterfly valley (Oludeniz - Fethiye), Iztuzu (Turtle Beach - Dalyan), Patara (Kalkan - Antalya), Konya alti (Antalya), Alanya, Sile (Istanbul), Kilyos (Istanbul)

Mountains:

  Nemrut (Adiyaman), Uludag (Bursa), Kartal Kaya (Bolu), Palandöken (Erzurum), Erciyes (Kayseri), Bolkar (Erzincan), Mount Bubi - Ararat (Agri), Zigana (Gumushane), Bozadag (Izmir), Ilgaz (kastamonu), Sarikamis (Kars), Davras (Isparta), Kaz dagi (Canakkale), Kackar (Rize), Babadag (Oludeniz – Fethiye)

Rivers:

Kizilirmak, Yesilirmak, Sakarya go to Black Sea, Susurluk, Biga, Gonen go to Marmara Sea. Gediz, K. Menders, Meric go to Aegean Sea. Seyhan, Ceyhan, Goksu go to Mediterranean. Firat, Dicle go to Iraq and than to Basra Gulf.

Lakes:

Van, Tuz Golu, Beysehir, Egridir, Burdur, Sapanca, Iznik, Ulubat, Manyas, Aksehir, Eber, Keban, Karakaya, Atatürk

Seas:

Black Sea is at the North, Marmara Sea is the North West; Aegean Sea is at West, Mediterranean Sea is at the south.

History:

The original Turkish lands were in Middle Asia, but when food supplies ran short, the Turks moved all over the world.  They arrived in Anatolia in 1071.  As they passed through Arabic countries they were influenced by the Muslim religion, which they brought to their new country.
They started building the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia in 1299.
In 1923 after the first world war (Anzac War) the Empire collapsed when the famous General/President Ataturk granted democracy for Turkey.  He built a new democratic republic and established modern rules and laws for the people.

Culture:

"We shall make the expansion and rise of Turkish culture in every era the mainstay of the Republic." Among the prominent statesmen of the 20th century, few articulated the supreme importance of culture as did Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, who stated: "Culture is the foundation of the Turkish Republic." His view of culture encompassed the nation's creative legacy as well as the best values of world civilization. It stressed personal and universal humanism. "Culture," he said, " Is a basic element in being a person worthy of humanity," and described Turkey's ideological thrust as "a creation of patriotism blended with a lofty humanist ideal." 
     To create the best synthesis, Ataturk underlined the need for the utilization of all viable elements in the national heritage, including the ancient indigenous cultures, and the arts and techniques of the entire world civilization, past and present. He gave impetus to the study of earlier civilizations of Anatolia -- including Hittite, Phrygian, Lydian and others. Pre-Islamic culture of the Turks became the subject of extensive research, which proved that, long before the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires, the Turks had already created a civilization of their own. Ataturk also stressed the folk arts and folklore of the countryside as a wellspring of Turkish creativity. 
     Ottoman officials, who claimed the depiction of the human form was idolatry, had arrested the development of painting, sculpture and the decorative arts but these arts flourished during Ataturk's presidency. 
     

   Many museums were opened and architecture gained new vigor. Classical Western music, opera and ballet, as well as theatre took impressive strides. Several hundred "People's Houses" and "People's Rooms" all over Turkey gave local people and youngsters a wide variety of artistic activities, sports and cultural affairs. Book and magazine publication enjoyed a boom. The Film industry started to grow. In all walks of cultural life, Atatürk's inspiration created an upsurge. 
   Atatürk's Turkey is living proof of this ideal -- a country rich in its own national culture, open to the heritage of world civilization and at home in the endowments of the modern technological age. For more information about Atatürk please click on the banner.

  Turkish culture is a mixture of Islamic and European influences. It is a country divided between eastern and western culture.  For more cultural information, visit the government’s official site www.kultur.gov.tr

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