1. Turkey Part 1 Country Research By: Lauren E. Riley

3. Important Landforms – High Central Plateau (Anatolia) – Narrow Coastal Plain – Several Mountain Ranges

4. Turkey is Located – In Europe – Southwestern Asia – Northern Hemisphere

6. LANGUAGE Official Languages of Turkey – Turkish – Kurdish – Other Minority Languages

7. Religion Main Religions – 99.8% Muslim (mostly Sunni) – 0.2% Other (mostly Christians and Jews

8. LIFE Life Expectancy – 70.12 years MALE – 73.89 years FEMALE

9. SWEET 15 LITERACY RATE – 87.4% TOTAL POPULATION – 95.3% MALE – 76.6% FEMALE

11. SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT – Republican Parliamentary Democracy

12. *IMPORTANT * PEOPLE* Head of Government P rime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc

14. $$ MONEY $$ JOBS – 29.5% Agriculture – 24.7% Industry – 45.8% Services

15. CAPITA GDP – 11,200

16. Turkey PART 2 WINTER OLYMPICS 2010

17. Athletes Turkish athletes in the olympics 3 Women= Tugba Dasdemir Kelime Tugba CetincayaKarademir 1 Man= Erdinc Turksever

18. EVENTS # OF EVENTS Three

19. MEDALS # of Medals GOLD= SILVER= BRONZE=

20. RECORDS

21. NEWS  MY COUNTRY IS… …NOTHING HAPPENS