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Turkey (Country)
Officially known as the Republic of Turkey, Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolain peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. It is a country with a significant geostrategic importance with its location at the crossroads of Asia and Europe.
2,044 Questions
Who attacked and defeated constantinople?
The Ottoman Turks won in 1453.
It was the end of the Roman Empire in the East. By that time the Empire had changed it's name to the Byzantine Empire, but it had a continuous history that goes back to the founding of Rome in 753 BC.
The Crusaders won in 1210, but the Byzantines managed to regain the city a few years later.
Before that the Arabs besieged Constantinople several times and so did the Persians, Russ, Bulgars and Slavs. Each previous time the Byzantine Empire managed to beat off their attackers.
Who is the most popular soccer player?
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Answeri think the most popular players in soccer is c.ronaldo Answerhim n David beckhamANSWER
David beckham is most popular as a celebrity, but not as a player...Depending on where you are from is what you would think the most popular team is. I think it is South Africa.
What are the major natural resources of Turkey?
Turkey's most important minerals are chromite, bauxite, and copper. The country also exploits deposits of other minerals such as iron, manganese, lead, zinc, antimony, asbestos, pyrites, sulfur, mercury, and manganese. Mining contributed slightly under 2 percent of GDP in 1992, but the subsector provides the raw material for such key manufacturing industries as iron and steel, aluminum, cement, and fertilizers. Turkey exports a variety of minerals, the most important of which are blister copper, chrome, and boron products. Minerals accounted for an average of about 2 percent of export earnings in the mid-1990s. The public sector dominates mining, accounting for about 75 percent of sales. Etibank, set up in 1935 to develop Turkey's natural resources, manages most of the state's mineral interests, particularly bauxite, boron minerals, chromite, and copper.
What is the time difference between England and Turkey?
Turkey is 2 hours ahead of England.
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England is 2 hours behind Turkey.
What is the difference between Turkish and a Turk?
Well, yes there is.
both of them Arabic and Kurdish are different, even though they're Muslims.
but Arabs speak Arabic as their main language and Kurds speak Kurdish.
I have Kurdish friends and yes you can tell the difference between them.
Land area: 297,591 sq mi (770,761 sq km); total area: 301,382 sq mi (780,580 sq km)
Population (2009 est.): 76,805,524 (growth rate: 1.3%); birth rate: 18.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 25.8/1000; life expectancy: 71.9; density per sq mi: 239
Capital (2003 est.): Ankara, 3,582,000 (metro. area), 3,456,100 (city proper)
Largest cities: Istanbul, 9,760,000 (metro. area), 8,831,805 (city proper); Izmir, 2,398,200; Bursa, 1,288,900; Adana, 1,219,900; Gaziantep, 979,500
Monetary unit: Turkish lira (YTL)
Turkey is at the northeast end of the Mediterranean Sea in southeast Europe and southwest Asia. To the north is the Black Sea and to the west is the Aegean Sea. Its neighbors are Greece and Bulgaria to the west, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania to the north and northwest (through the Black Sea), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east, and Syria and Iraq to the south. The Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus divide the country. Turkey in Europe comprises an area about equal to the state of Massachusetts. Turkey in Asia is about the size of Texas. Its center is a treeless plateau rimmed by mountains.
a funny fact that most people don't know is Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be the countries animal instead of the bald eagle. Aparently that did not happen.
Is the country Turkey bigger than England?
Yes, it is, about twice or three times of England, that is, if you are talking about England in the UK.
How much is 400 Turkish lira worth?
1 New Turkish lira is worth (March 2009) about US$0.75.
So 40 lira is about US$30
How far away is turkey to the UK in kilometers?
The flight distance from London, UK to Istanbul, Turkey is 1,556 miles or 2,504 km. The actual flight time would be 3 hours and 37 minutes.
What is west of Syria and south of Turkey?
The island of Cyprus is south of Turkey and west of Syria.
How many turkeys are in the country of Turkey?
The life expectancy is 71,5 years for men and 76,1 years for women in Turkey according the data of 2009. Between the ages 15 to 64, there are 24,218,277 men and 23,456,761 women. Also there are 2,198,07 male and 2,607,551 women over 65 years old as the data of 2008.
The sex ratio of Turkey like on the following in Turkey:
At birth:1.05 male(s)/femaleUnder 15:1.04 male(s)/female15-64 years:1.03 male(s)/female65-over:0.84 male(s)/female
What is the Turkish word for grandma?
If your grandmother is your mother's mother you should say anneanne but if your grandmother is your father's mother you should say babaanne.Somepeople say "büyükanne" for both of them but "anneanne" and "babaanne" are most common ones."Nine"is a word which means grandmother, too.
It depends if you want the word for maternal or paternal grandmother (like, the mom's mother or the dad's mother).
babaanne = paternal grandmother
anneanne = maternal grandmother
nine = either grandmother
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What was the former capital of turkey?
The Capital of the Ottoman Empire was originally called Byzantium before being renamed as Constantinople and was renamed by Ottomans as Istanbul.
It's says in my history book...: The victorious sultan rode to Hagia Sophia, the city's largest Christian church. There he offered thanks to Allah and gave orders that the church be transformed into a mosque. He decreed that Constantinopole was now a Muslim city, the capital of a Muslim empire, and renamed it Istanbul. The Byzantine Empire was no more.
The Ottoman Empire no longer exists, its capital was Istanbul. The capital of modern Turkey is Ankara.
Edirne was the third capital city of the Ottoman Empire, before Constantinople
What continent is cappadocia in?
Cappadocia is located in the country of Turkey. Part of Turkey is in Europe and part of the country is in Asia. Cappadocia is in the part of Turkey that is located in Asia.
Due to the geographical climate, I can not give you one set temperature, but I have been to Bodrum and Olu Deniz and I can tell you that Olu Deniz is about 5-10 degrees Celsius hotter than Bodrum. In Bodrum, you can find a nice breeze whereas in Olu Deniz, the sun is all there is. Olu Deniz can get up to 45 degrees Celsius easily in July and most likely hotter... Hope this helps.
Are there mountains in Turkey?
Mountain ranges found in the country of Turkey include Pontic, Anti-Taurus, and Nur mountains. There are also the Taurus and Sultan mountain ranges.
How long was the ottoman empire in existence in turkey?
The dates for the Ottoman Empire are 1299 to 1923. It always had territory in Turkey during that time.
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What is the nickname for the country Turkey?
The Republic of Turkey. Turkiye Cumhuriyeti (the Turkish way of saying it). You can also call the Asian side Anatolia.
What are the most significant events that happened in Turkey?
A chronology of key events:
1923 - Assembly declares Turkey a republic and Kemal Ataturk as president.
Istanbul: Europe meets Asia in Turkey's largest city
Former capital of Byzantine, Ottoman empires
1930: Constantinople officially renamed Istanbul
Population: 9.4 million
2005: Islam tests secular Istanbul
2006: Treasure dig threatens Bosphorus rail link
1928 - Turkey becomes secular: clause retaining Islam as state religion removed from constitution.
1925 - Adoption of Gregorian calendar. Prohibition of the fez.
1938 - President Ataturk dies, succeeded by Ismet Inonu.
1945 - Neutral for most of World War II, Turkey declares war on Germany and Japan, but does not take part in combat. Joins United Nations.
1950 - Republic's first open elections, won by opposition Democratic Party.
Military coups
1952 - Turkey abandons Ataturk's neutralist policy and joins Nato.
1960 - Army coup against ruling Democratic Party.
Ottoman Empire: multi-ethnic state lasting more than 600 years
Developed in late 13th century
Extended into south-east Europe, north Africa, Middle East
Replaced by Turkish Republic in 1922
2002: Empire of the Ottomans
BBC Religion & Ethics: The Ottoman Empire
1961 - New constitution establishes two-chamber parliament.
1963 - Association agreement signed with European Economic Community (EEC).
1965 - Suleyman Demirel becomes prime minister - a position he is to hold seven times.
1971 - Army forces Demirel's resignation after spiral of political violence.
1974 - Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus.
1976 - Earthquake kills more than 5,000 people in western Van province.
1978 - US trade embargo resulting from invasion lifted.
1980 - Military coup follows political deadlock and civil unrest. Imposition of martial law.
1982 - New constitution creates seven-year presidency, and reduces parliament to single house.
1983 - General election won by Turgut Ozal's Motherland Party (ANAP).
PKK war
1984 - Turkey recognises "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus."
Kurdistan Workers' Party launches separatist guerrilla war in southeast.
Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish republic
Born in 1881
President from 1923
Died in 1938
2005: Ataturk diaries to remain secret
1987 - Turkey applies for full EEC membership.
1990 - Turkey allows US-led coalition against Iraq to launch air strikes from Turkish bases.
1992 - 20,000 Turkish troops enter Kurdish safe havens in Iraq in anti-PKK operation.
Turkey joins Black Sea alliance.
1993 - Tansu Ciller becomes Turkey's first woman prime minister, and Demirel elected president.
Ceasefire with PKK breaks down.
1995 - Major military offensive launched against the Kurds in northern Iraq, involving some 35,000 Turkish troops.
Ciller coalition collapses. Pro-Islamist Welfare Party wins elections but lacks support to form government - two major centre-right parties form anti-Islamist coalition.
Turkey enters EU customs union.
1996 - Centre-right coalition falls. Welfare Party leader Necmettin Erbakan heads first pro-Islamic government since 1923.
1997 - Coalition resigns after campaign led by the military, replaced by a new coalition led by the centre-right Motherland Party of Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz.
Jailed: Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah Ocalan
Profile: Abdullah Ocalan
1999: Jeremy Bowen on Ocalan arrest
1999: PM Ecevit says Ocalan to get fair trial
1998 January - Welfare Party - the largest in parliament - banned. Yilmaz resigns amid corruption allegations, replaced by Bulent Ecevit.
1999 February - PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan captured in Kenya.
1999 July - Ocalan receives death sentence, later commuted to life imprisonment.
1999 August - Devastating earthquake with epicentre at Izmit in Turkey's heavily populated northwest kills 17,000 people.
1999 November - Second quake in same region kills hundreds more.
Into the new millennium
2000 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer takes over from Suleyman Demirel as president.
2001 January - Diplomatic row with France after French National Assembly recognises the killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
2001 May - European Court of Human Rights finds Turkey guilty of violating the rights of Greek Cypriots during its occupation of northern Cyprus.
2001 June - Constitutional Court bans opposition pro-Islamic Virtue Party, saying it had become focus of anti-secular activities. New pro-Islamist party Saadet is set up by former Virtue Party members in July.
2001 November - British construction firm Balfour Beatty and Impregilo of Italy pull out of the controversial Ilisu dam project. Swiss bank UBS follows suit in February 2002.
Talks on EU entry could take years
Q&A: Turkey's EU entry talks
2002 January - Turkish men are no longer regarded in law as head of the family. The move gives women full legal equality with men, 66 years after women's rights were put on the statute books.
2002 March - Turkish and Greek governments agree to build a gas pipeline along which Turkey will supply Greece with gas.
2002 July - Pressure for early elections as eight ministers including Foreign Minister Cem resign over ailing PM Ecevit's refusal to step down amid growing economic, political turmoil. Cem launches new party committed to social democracy, EU membership.
2002 August - Parliament approves reforms aimed at securing EU membership. Death sentence to be abolished except in times of war and bans on Kurdish education, broadcasting to be lifted.
Islamist party victorious
2002 November - Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AK) wins landslide election victory. Party promises to stick to secular principles of constitution. Deputy leader Abdullah Gul appointed premier.
Secularists see headscarves as symbols of radical Islam
2006: Headscarf issue challenges Turkey
2002 December - Constitutional changes allow head of ruling AK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to run for parliament, and so to become prime minister. He had been barred from public office because of previous criminal conviction.
2003 March - AK leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins seat in parliament. Within days Abdullah Gul resigns as prime minister and Erdogan takes over.
Parliament decides not to allow deployment of US forces ahead of war in Iraq but allows US use of Turkish air space. It authorises dispatch of Turkish forces into Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
2003 May - More than 160 people, many of them schoolchildren trapped in a dormitory, die in an earthquake in the Bingol area.
2003 June-July - Eyeing future EU membership, parliament passes laws easing restrictions on freedom of speech, Kurdish language rights, and on reducing political role of military.
Istanbul attacks
2003 November - 25 people are killed and more than 200 injured when two car bombs explode near Istanbul's main synagogue. Days later two co-ordinated suicide bombings at the British consulate and a British bank in the city kill 28 people.
2004 January - Turkey signs protocol banning death penalty in all circumstances, a move welcomed in EU circles.
Istanbul's historic spice market - one of the city's main bazaars
2004 February - More than 60 people killed when apartment block in city of Konya collapses.
2004 March - At least two people killed in a suspected suicide attack on a building housing a Masonic lodge in Istanbul.
2004 May - PKK says it plans to end a ceasefire because of what it calls annihilation operations against its forces.
2004 June - State TV broadcasts first Kurdish-language programme.
Four Kurdish activists, including former MP Leyla Zana, freed from jail.
Nato heads of state gather for summit in Istanbul.
2004 July - Three die in car bomb attack in southeastern town of Van. Authorities accuse the PKK of involvement which it denies.
2004 September - Parliament approves penal reforms introducing tougher measures to prevent torture and violence against women. Controversial proposal on criminalising adultery dropped.
EU talks
Turkey maintains troops in breakaway northern Cyprus
Q&A: Cyprus peace process
2004 December - EU leaders agree to open talks in 2005 on Turkey's EU accession. The decision, made at a summit in Brussels, follows a deal over an EU demand that Turkey recognise Cyprus as an EU member.
2005 January - New lira currency introduced as six zeroes are stripped from old lira, ending an era in which banknotes were denominated in millions.
2005 May - Parliament approves amendments to new penal code after complaints that the previous version restricted media freedom. The EU welcomes the move but says the code still fails to meet all its concerns on human rights.
2005 June - Parliament overturns veto by secularist President Sezer on government-backed amendment easing restrictions on teaching of Koran.
2005 July - Six killed in bomb attack on a train in the east. Officials blame the PKK.
Turkey's army is the second largest in Nato after the US
2006: Turkish army keeps eye on politicians
2006: Turkey approves Lebanon troops
2006: Big army cuts planned by Turkey
Explosion on minibus in resort town of Kusadasi kills at least four people.
2005 October - EU membership negotiations officially launched after intense bargaining.
2005 November - Multi-billion-dollar Blue Stream pipeline carrying Russian gas under the Black Sea to Turkey opens in the port of Samsun.
2006 March - 14 suspected Kurdish rebels killed by security forces.
2006 April - At least a dozen people are killed in clashes between Kurdish protesters and security forces in the south-east. Several people are killed in related unrest in Istanbul.
2006 May - Gunman opens fire in Turkey's highest court, killing a prominent judge and wounding four others. Thousands protest against what they perceive as an Islamic fundamentalist attack.
2006 June - Parliament passes new anti-terror law which worries the EU and which rights groups criticise as an invitation to torture.
2006 July - Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline opened at ceremony in Turkey.
Murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink shocked Turkey
2007: Turkish-Armenian writer shunned silence
In pictures: Dink killing
2006 August-September - Bombers target resorts and Istanbul. Shadowy separatist group Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAC) claims responsibility for some attacks and warns it will turn "Turkey into hell".
2006 30 September - Kurdish separatist group, the PKK, declares a unilateral ceasefire in operations against the military.
2006 December - EU partially freezes Turkey's membership talks because of Ankara's failure to open its ports and airports to Cypriot traffic.
2007 January - Journalist and Armenian community leader Hrant Dink is assassinated. The murder provokes outrage in Turkey and Armenia. Prime Minister Erdogan says a bullet has been fired at democracy and freedom of expression.
Secularist protests
2007 April - Tens of thousands of supporters of secularism rally in Ankara, aiming to pressure Prime Minister Erdogan not to run in presidential elections because of his Islamist background.
Ruling AK party puts forward Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as its candidate after Mr Erdogan decides not to stand. He narrowly fails to win in the first round.
2007 May - Parliament brings forward national elections to 22 July to try end the standoff between secularists and Islamists over the choice of the next president.
Parliament gives initial approval to a constitutional change allowing the president to be elected by a popular vote, but the amendment is vetoed by President Sezer.
Tension mounts on Turkey-Iraq border amid speculation that Turkey may launch an incursion to tackle Kurdish rebels.
Bomb blast in Ankara kills six and injures 100. PKK denies responsibility.
2007 July - AK Party wins parliamentary elections.
2007 August - Abdullah Gul is elected president.
2007 October - Diplomatic row with United States after a US congressional committee recognises the killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
Parliament gives go-ahead for military operations in Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels.
Voters in a referendum back plans to have future presidents elected by the people instead of by parliament.
2007 December - Turkey launches a series of air strikes on fighters from the Kurdish PKK movement inside Iraq.
Headscarf dispute
2008 February - Thousands protest plans to allow women to wear the Islamic headscarf to university.
Parliament approves constitutional amendments which will pave the way for women to be allowed to wear the Islamic headscarf in universities.
2008 July - Petitition to the constitutional court to have the governing AK Party banned for alllegedly undermining the secular constitution fails by a narrow margin.
2008 October - Trial starts of 86 suspected members of a shadowy ultra-naltionalist group accused of plotting a series of attacks and provoking a military coup against the government.
