TURKEY BY: ANDRES GARZA MAIN MENU NATIONAL ANTHEM

MAIN MENU MAP NATURAL FEATURES ECONOMY GOVERNMENT PEOPLE POPULATIO N POPULATIO N LITERAC Y LITERAC Y WEATHER BACKGROUND RECENT EVENT TOURISM MENU FLIGHT INTEREST MENU INTEREST 1 INTEREST 2 INTEREST 3 SOURCES

MAP OF COUNTRY MAIN MENU CAPITAL CITY: Ankara

ECONOMY MAIN MENU IMPORTS: machinery, chemicals, semi-finished goods, fuels, transport equipment EXPORTS: apparel, foodstuffs, textiles, metal manufactures, transport equipment CURRENCY: Turkish liras EXCHANGE RATE: 1 USD = 2.24 Turkish liras in September 2014

GOVERNMENT MAIN MENU TYPE OF GOVERNMENT: Republican parliamentary Democracy CHIEF OF STATE: President Abdullah Gul HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Recep Tayyip Erdogan Recep Tayyip Erdogan Abdullah Gul

PEOPLE MAIN MENU TYPE OF GOVERNMENT: Republican parliamentary Democracy CHIEF OF STATE: President Abdullah Gul HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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NATURAL FEATURES MAIN MENU MAYOR BODIES OF LAND: High central plateau (Antonia); narrow coastal plain; several mountains ranges. MAYOR BODIES OF WATER: Sea of Marmara, Aegean sea, med terrain sea, black sea. NATURAL RESOURCES: coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower.

WEATHER MAIN MENU CLIMATE: temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior Tempature in Ankara in C MonthOct Day High Low

POPULATION MAIN MENU POPULATION: 81,619,392 YEAR: 2014

BACKGROUND MAIN MENU Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk or "Father of the Turks." Under his leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the Kurdistan People's Congress or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives. After the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey mainly to northern Iraq. In 2013, KGK and the Turkish Government agreed to a ceasefire that continues despite slow progress in ongoing peace talks. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community. Over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy; it began accession membership talks with the European Union in 2005.

MAIN MENU RECENT EVENT Turkish security forces use teargas and water cannons to disperse protesting local people after Turkey opened its border to allow in up to 60,000 people. Also what is happening is: Syrians wait to cross the Syrian-Turkish border after fleeing clashes between Isis militants and Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces in the Tal Abyad district of Syria’s Ar-Raqqah governorate.

MAIN MENU TOURISM MENU FLIGHT POINT OF INTEREST MENU

MAIN MENU FLIGHT TO ANKARA Price of round trip= USD From October TOURISM MENU From: MonterreyTo: Chicago Dep: 1:11 pmArr: 4:12 pm Flight: 6227Airline:United From: ChicagoTo: Munich Dep: 6:05 pmArr:9:50am+1day Flight: 992Airline: United From: MunichTo: Ankara Dep: 11:10 amArr: 3:00 pm Flight:9044Airline:United From: AnkaraTo: Istanbul Dep: 7:30 amxArr: 8:30 am Flight:2113Airline:Turkish From: IstanbulTo:Toronto Dep: 10:55Arr: 2:55pm Flight:811Airline:Air Canada From: TorontoTo: Houston Dep: 4:35 pmArr: 6:53 pm Flight:8113Airline:Air Canada From: HoustonTo: Monterrey Dep: 9:00pmArr: 10:32pm Flight:3341Airline:Air Canada

MAIN MENU POINT OF INTEREST MENU TOURISM MENU Ataturk Mausoleum War of Independence museum POINT OF INTEREST 3

MAIN MENU Ataturk Mausoleum TOURISM MENU Point of interest menu The Ataturk Mausoleum was constructed in 1944 at a top of a hill so that everyone can see it, it is the founder of the country, it opened on 1953.

MAIN MENU War of Independence Museum TOURISM MENU Point of interest menu Kurtulus Savasi Muzesi was the first Parliament building of Turkey It was built by Salim Bey in 1915 and used as the headquarters of Committee of Union and Progress.

MAIN MENU Ataturk Fores Farm zoo TOURISM MENU Point of interest menu The Ankara Forest Farm was made in 1925 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk The founder of the Turkish Republic, as a private farm. In 1937, Atatürk gave the farm to the Turkish state.

MAIN MENU SOURCES 1Flag, Capital, Imports, Exports, Currency, Type of Government, Chief of State, Language, Religion, Ethnic Groups, Total Population, Literacy, Bodies of land, Bodies of water, Natural Resources, Land Use, Climate, Background CIA World Factbook 2AnthemHand Out Folder 3Mapwww.infoplease.com 4Exchange RateGoogle Currency Converter 5Picture of billproteus.brown.edu 6Picture of coin1001thingstodoinistanbul.wordpress.com 7Pic of Chief 1www.bh-index.com 8Pic of Chief 2guncelkadin.org 9Pict 1 for peoplePaloina.com 1010 Pict 2 for peoplePeace.marimo.com 1 Population by genderww.geohive.com 1212 TemperaturesGoogle Weathers 1313 Recent Eventwww.theguardian.com 1414 Pict 2 for Recent eventwww.theguardian.com 1515 Pict 2 for Recent Eventwww.theguardian.com 1616 Flightwww.expedia.com 1717 Point of interest 1www.tripadvisor.com 1818 Pict 1 for POI1en.wikipedia.org 1919 Pict 1 for POI1en.wikipedia.org 2020 Point of interest 2www.virtualtourist.com 2121 Pict 1 for PI2www.virtualtourist.com 2 Pict 2 for PI2www.virtualtourist.com 2323 Point of interest 3http://en.wikipedia.org 2424 Pict 1 for PI3placeandsee.com 2525 Pict 2 for PI3www.habermonitor.com