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Turkey Project

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1.

GENERAL FACTS

  • Population 73,000,000
  • Pop density 242 per sq mile
  • Capital is Ankara
  • Lang: Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic
  • Industries: textiles, lumber, mining
2.

GOVERNMENT

  • Presidential Rebuplic
  • Free-market country
  • 48.4% service jobs
  • 25.5% agriculture jobs
  • 26.2% industry jobs
3.

CONSTITUTION

  • November 7, 1982
  • Freedom of Science and the Arts
  • Freedom of Thought and Opinion
  • Freedom of Religion and Conscience
  • Freedom of Residence and Movement
4.

CAPITAL : ANKARA

  • Since Ottoman Empires fall in 1923
  • Countries second largest city, Istanbul being the largest
  • Important industrial and commercial city
  • Strategically placed between major roads for marketing
  • The city is famous for its Angora goat
5.

INDUSTRIES : AGRICULTURE

  • Olives
  • Tomatoes
  • Cheeses
6.

ANGORA GOAT

  • Produces mohair
  • Goat milk
  • Goat cheese
  • Goat meat
7.

THE NEWEST BILL

  • Internet censorship
  • Allows telecommunication to block websites
  • If Abdullah Gul, President, signs bill dent his global standing
  • Chance to not be re-elected
8.

GEOGRAPHY

  • Turkey is actually split in half
  • Anatolia is the Asian part
  • Thrace is the European half
  • Anatolia is 97% of the countries area
  • Thrace is only 3%
9.

WATER WAYS

  • Bosporus and Dardanelles
  • Bosporus forms boundary between Asia and Europe
  • Dardanelles connects Aegean Sea to Marmara Sea
10.

DAM PROJECT

  • 19 hydroelectric plants
  • 22 dams
  • $1.5 billion
  • Llisu dam began construction in '06
  • Controversial because it could flood and displace 25,000 residents
11.

MOUNTAINS

  • Taurus mountains
  • Separating Mediterranean region and plateau
  • Western Taurus
  • Central Taurus
  • Southeastern Taurus
12.

CULTURES

  • Many different cultures
  • Greek, Roman, Middle Eastern, Asian
  • Clear efforts to become "modern" and "western"
  • Maintain traditional religious and historical factor
13.

BLACK SEA

  • One of Turkey's 7 census-defined regions
  • Good trading place
14.

WEATHER THREATS

  • Not much rain from mountains in area
  • Right now it's cold
  • Very windy
15.

TURKISH WORDS

  • Hello - merhaba
  • Goodbye - elveda
  • Food - gıda
  • Coffee - kahve

Tanika G