TURKEY

POPULATION

CAPITAL

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

LITERACY RATE

CLIMATE

• Temperate
• hot, dry summers
• Mild and wet winters

GOVERNMENT

• They area republican parliamentary democracy
• There leader is Recep Tayyip Erdogan

GEOGRAPHY

• Turkey has a total area of 783,535 sqaure miles
• Turkey's small European section called Thrace
• Borders on Greece and bulgaria

ETHNIC GROUPS

• 70-75% Turkish
• 18% Kurdish
• 7-12% other minorities

RELIGION

• About 98 percent of Turkey's citizens are nominally Muslims
• 80 to 85 percent are Sunnis of the Hanafi school
• 15 to 20 percent are members of Shiite sects (mostly Alevi)
• Four percent of Turks identify themselves as atheists
• 4 percent as agnostics

TRADITIONS

• They have folk dances
• folk music

HISTORY

• Naturally, Anatolia had history before the Turks, but the region did not become "Turkey"
• August 26, 1071, the Seljuks under Alp Arslan prevailed at the Battle of Manzikert
• On November 1, 1922, the Ottoman sultanate was formally abolished.
• In 1945, Turkey became a charter member of the new United Nations
• Turkey joined NATO in 1952, much to the consternation of the USSR.

HISTORY

• October 29, 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed, with Ankara
• Mustafa Kemal became the first president of the new secular republic.

FACTS

• Turkey is 80% responsible for the worlds hazelnut export
• The first ever Christian Church built by man was in Antioch, Turkey
• cekoslakyalilastiramadliklarimizdanmissiniz is the worlds longest word
• Tulips were introduced to Eupope by Turkish traders in the 16th century

WORK CITIED

• Asianhistory.com
• Allaboutturkey.com
• geography.about.com
• roughguides.com
• everyculture.com