2. Turkey is a contiguous transcontinental country, located mostly on Anatolia in Western Asia, and on East Thrace in Southeastern Europe.

3. BOSPHORUS

4. Ankara Capital City: Turkish Lira Money t: Democracy Method of Management:

5. 76.667.384 Population: %99 Islam,%1 Others Religion: 783.562 km² Area:

6. TURKISH FLAG Red represents blood of Turkish people died during the independence war of Turkey.

7. The founder of the Turkish Republic is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

8. An important influence of Republicanism in Turkey formed a new republic in 1923 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. In the Ottoman Empire an inherited aristocracy and sultinate suppressed republican ideas until the successful republican revolution of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. REPUBLICANISM IN TURKEY

9. Election and Recognition of the Right of Women In 1930s it means women have the right of voting in politics.

10. DRESS REFORM In 1934s style of clothing of the folk was rearanged according to the norms of the West.

11. ALPHABET REFORM It is the common name of the alphabet. Instead of using the Ottoman Alphabet, the Latin Alphabet was rearranged.

13. HAGIA SOFIA MUSEUM

14. SULTANAHMET MOSQUE

15. INSIDE THE SULTANAHMET MOSQUE

16. EPHESUS ANCIENT CITY

17. EPHESUS

18. SUMELA MONASTERY

19. APHRODISIAS ANCIENT CITY

20. MOUNT NEMRUT

21. PAMUKKALE

22. ORHAN PAMUK Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. My Name Is Red Snow The Museum of Innocent Non-fiction

23. FAZIL SAY Fazıl Say (born January 14, 1970) is a Turkish pianist and composer born in Ankara. AWARDS Winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions (1994) German Music Critics’ Best Recording of the Year Award (2001)

24. ARDA TURAN Arda Turan (born 30 January 1987) is a Turkish footballer who plays for Spanish club Atlético Madrid and the Turkish national team. In 2011, it was announced that Arda would be joining Atlético Madrid for a fee of €12 million plus bonuses, making him the most expensive Turkish footballer of all-time.

25. MEHMET CENGIZ OZ Mehmet Cengiz Oz (Turkish:born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz, is a Turkish- American cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and television personality. He Listed in Best Doctors of the Year, New York Magazine