The location of your country, geography and climate
Country:
Turkey is located approximately 1,600 kilometers from east to west and 550 kilometers from north to south. Turkey is located in southeast Europe and southwest Asia. Its neighbors are Greece and Bulgaria to the west, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania to the north and northwest side through the Black Sea.
Geography:
Turkey is located on two continents, Europe and Asia. The Asian side is called Anatolia and the European side is called Eastern Thrace. Total area is approximately 814,578 square kilometers, 97 percent of the area is located on the Asia side and the rest three percent are located on the Europe side. Turkey is surrounded by four Seas: Black Sea in the north, Marmara Sea in the northwest, Aegean Sea in the west and Mediterranean Sea in the south.
Climate:
Summers are hot and dry, the temperature rises up to 30 C, in midsummer. Winters are mild in the Mediterranean, Aegean and the Marmara region, most of the rain falls during November through February. Most of the fruit, vegetables, cotton, grain and tobacco are grown on the coast. On the Black Sea the climate is cooler and rainier. People grow maize, rice, barley, potatoes, sugar roots, onions and hemps. Summers are longer and hot and winters are short and rainy.
Give a one paragraph summary of its history
The Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Turkey is often called “the cradle of civilization” because since 6500 B.C. it was known as a home for a rich variety of tribes and nation of people. Turkey in Asia (Anatolia) was occupied in 19In B.C. by the Indo-European Hittites. 1945 Turkey joined the UN and became a member of NATO in 1952. Turkey occupied the northern portion of Cyprus i...
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...e state, namely the Ministry of National Education. Everyone has the right to get an education in turkey. Education is compulsory from ages 6 to 14 and free in state schools. Stages of school system are same like in Canada and state. Turkey has four stages of education system. The four stages are Pre-school education, primary education, secondary education, and high education.
Foods Eaton
Turkey 10 famous foods are:
Adana Kebab Testi Kebab
Sac Kavurma Menemen
Kofte Dolma
Borek Lahmacun & Pide
Manti Mezes
Turks usually prefer a simple breakfast. A traditional Turkish breakfast contains cheese, butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam and honey. In the hot Turkish summer weather, a meal often consists of fried vegetables such as eggplant and peppers or potatoes served with yogurt and tomato sauce.
In short, the majority of Turkey’s allies did nothing about the ordeal in the end. Basically brushing the entire event off. Eventually, the already small and fragile Armenian republic was given no support from the allies as a whole, and collapsed upon itself. As for the Turkish, in the successful obliteration of the vast majority of the Armenian people, they destroyed many priceless masterpieces, libraries and churches that had belonged to the Armenians. In Turkey, it’s illegal to even mention the topic of the Armenian Genocide.
Ireland has an exact location of 53 00 N, 8 00 W. These include the St. George’s Channel, the North Sea and the Irish sea. Also some other bodies of water include the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ireland is an island so that is why there are numerous amounts of water features surrounding it. Ireland is a little larger than West Virginia and is in the shape of a bear's leg claw.
While taking the class of Early Modern European History there was two states that really stuck out and peaked my interest the most. They were the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. If you compare and contrast both the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe during the 16th Century through the 18th Century, you will see that there are a number of similarities as well as differences when you look at the expansion of the states. You will also see many of these contrasts as well when you look in terms of each states military and commerce. Although the Ottoman Empire existed before the 16th century and continued to exist past the 18th century and in great decline until the early 20th century, when looking at the state as a whole the time period of 1500’s through the 1700’s is a period of growth and strength. It is perhaps even known as a golden era for the state, when taking in to comparison the Early Modern Europeans where the same time period marks a change in how society thought and how people were treated.
Somalia, which is about the size of Texas, is a small country located in Eastern Africa next to the Indian Ocean. The United States, which is located on the Western Hemisphere, is bordered by Mexico and Canada and is between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Islam has been a dominant force throughout Turkish history. During the Ottoman Empire, Islam ruled every part of the theocratic state, but after the demise of the empire, Turkey's rulers led the country away from political Islam. The modern Turkish state has a strictly secular government, and Islam has been relegated to the personal sphere. Although Turkey has experienced a rise in fundamentalism in the past twenty years, the separation of church and state has remained relatively intact. Even with this increase of fundamentalist Islam, the wide majority of Muslims in Turkey are moderate and tolerant. They have adapted to modern life and value Islam for its moral and spiritual messages. Islam is a guide for right living and ethical conduct rather than a political system. Turkey constantly struggles to balance Islamic life with a secular government. Although the government wants to maintain a strict separation between religion and politics, it cannot ignore the power and influence that Islam has in the lives of the Turkish people.
The emergence of the Young Turk movement, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and its defeat in World War I, saw many changes in Asia Minor. The internal conflict with the Armenians during the war, and the flight of hundreds of thousands of Greeks, led to a dramatic change in the population of the emerging Republic of Turkey. The moving of the Turkish capital to Ankara in 1923 led to a shift from the previous capital, Constantinople.
The Kurds are located mainly in the Middle East. They live in the mountainous regions of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Turkey has the most Kurdish people out of any country in the world. There are about 8 million Kurds in Turkey. When the Ottoman Empire was broken up, the Kurds were promised independence and that’s why most of the Kurdish people moved and stayed in Turkey.
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: "Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and the Armenian Genocide. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. (Accessed March 20, 2014).
Since the beginning of humankind, the study of geography has captured the imagination of the people. In ancient times, geography books extolled tales of distant lands and dreamed of treasures. The ancient Greeks created the word "geography" from the roots "ge" for earth and "grapho" for "to write." These people experienced many adventures and needed a way to explain and communicate the differences between various lands. Today, researchers in the field of geography still focus on people and cultures (cultural geography), and the planet earth (physical geography).
Istanbul is where the orient meets the occident. It is where Asia and Europe diverge, or rather converge. All seems to be in harmony here. Split by the Bosphorus at the Golden Horn, Istanbul carries millennia of history, buried in her stone-paved streets and taverns.
Geographical concepts have been traced back to ancient days, geography is defining as the scientific study of the location of people and activity across earth and reasons for their distribution. It asks where and why things are where they are. Geographers organizes materials by the places they are located, thus being they have concluded that what happens in one place affects what happens in another place and can further affect conditions in the near future. Like any other subject geography has its own language and knowledge for better understanding of its concepts. Thinking geographically means learning the language, we need both geographical vocabulary and grammar in order to do this. Geography has concepts that enables us to have geographical
The Aral Sea is in the very heart of the Central Asia. Central Asia, an area of 1.7 millions km2 in total, lies in the middle of the Eurasian continent. It is at the crossroads of the old caravan routes that ran from Europe to Asia and the Middle East to the Far East. The whole region consists of vast deserts and semi-arid lands (See Attachment 2. Geographical ...
Turkey was for 623 years part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1918 shortly after World War one allied forces occupied Turkey. This occupation prompted the Turkish War of Independence. This led to the creation of the Turkish National Movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, a military commander. The goal of the Turkish National Movement was to reject the terms of the Treaty of Sevres, which was a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies. Following the end of the war in 1922 the Allied forces were removed from the country. In November 1922 Turkey abolished foreign rule and became an Independent country. The initial government was a form of parliament. However it wasn't until October 1923 that the Republic of Turkey was officially named the successor to the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal officially became the first President of Turkey and introduced many reforms with the aim of a new secular republic. A new writing system was put in place based off the Latin alphabet, full right for women were established and the famous Turkish fez was abolished.
The city of Istanbul was originally known as Constantinople back in the time of the Byzantine Empire Days. Then, in 1453, Constantinople became part of Ottoman Empire and over the years, the name of the city was changed to Istanbul. Since both empires occupied Istanbul at one point, its leaders brought over many rich and diverse cultures, ideas, and many architectural designs. This beautiful city is separated by the Bosphorus Strait which is the main waterway connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, that separates Europe from Asia.
Cappadocia is an area in the country of Turkey that spans about 300km. It has an elevation of 1050m and has a volcanic terrain. It is bordered to the south by the Taurus Mountains which separate it from the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Coastal Ranges separate the area from the Black Sea. To the east it is bounded by the Euphrates. Its climate is mainly continental and consists of dry hot summers and cold, sometimes snowy winters. Temperatures reach an average of 25-30 degrees Celsius from June to August (the summer months) and between -10 and 10 degrees Celsius during December to February (the winter months). The relative humidity increases in the summer. Many people have described the weather there much like that of North Dakota. Rainfall is low in this semi-arid climate.