Facts about turkey?

Show all answers

AllsTar

As long as you guys are biased about Turkiye, nothing will be enuff for you to get rid of your ignorance. So, you guys call yourselves westernized huh?
Shame and pitty on you.
Hey Jes, I just wanna say if you really wanna have an experience of paradise while u r on this planet all you have to is to book a flight and fly down to Turkiye. U will see it will be worthdoing...
Enjoy yourself while u r in paradise, hon....
Have a great Blast....
Regards-

HOTTГјrk

-Hospitable and hot people
-Great Istanbul
-Wonderful coasts
-Best hotels
-Cheapest vacation

Our Man In Bananas

it's a magnificent, wonderful country...

I backpacked around Turkey for 2 months once...

It has everything, great food, amazing history and monuments (places like Ephasus, Troy), wonderful coasts, mountains...

and the people are great too in general.

I highly recommend it to you.

But buy a copy of the Loney Planet Turkey or Rough Guide to Turkey first...

BTW, I travelled round the country on the Fez Bus 'hop-on, hop-off' tour and stayed in hostels, so I only spent about $25 US a day :)

free_spark

I was born in Turkey raised in the States...
No comparison in the Kitchen!!! The best ever... Homemade food.
Coasts of Turkey is amazing. I remember going swimming on February in a small town near Izmir.
If you go to inner part of the country, people are more friendly and more hospitable. (But do be carefull in Istanbul. Can be compared with NY)
The History is breath taking. Did you know that Ottoman Empire didn't force people of the countries that they invaded to convert to Islam or change their spoken language!!! If you go to the south of Turkey you will see the remains of many civilizations. The tombs of Kings!!!
You have to go to Turkey to understand it! No book can ever tell you Turkey...

mother

Turkey is a lovely country,Just watch those handsome men, do not fall for their charm!Do not be afraid to say NO------- Stay with your friends girls and you should be o.k.

nihil

FACT: Many people feel a shock when they visit Turkey. People are very ignorant of this country and when they visit and see how beautiful it's they feel a great shock. Many Europeans don't know a s.hit about Turkey but always they have a comment. Americans are even worse about that.

The fact is, you need to be careful when reading about Turkey. Do not believe in what random people say, like bigwan above. Does it sound real to you? I wouldn't believe it even I were an alien from outer space.
Read reliable sources. Read good books,visit the country, ask the Turks, but never ever trust random people.

This is a good fact to know.

Claudia

A wonderful country and very nice and friendly people,I visit Turkey twice a year and I love it there.

\

very beautiful nice country very nice people ..i really didnt get the question facts about turkey?what facts? what do you wanna know about turkey?

DER METZGERMEISTER

*FACT* Istanbul is the only Capital City in the World that spans 2 continents.

genuine_duck@btinternet.com

The animal? It's a bird, you can eat it. It's not a good flyer, it's bloody ugly. It's as stupid as a Dodo and you can buy the meat from this fowl at butchers and supermarkets.
The Country? It's situated on the East coast of the Mediteranean Sea and on the South coast of the Black sea. It's region is where East meets West. It's capital is now Ankara although it used to be Istanbul. Which used to be Constantinople. It was once part of the Persian Empire. It's where the city of Troy was located and is part of the story told in the Iliad by the greek story teller Homer.

cilgin_can

I personally live in Turkey and here are facts that I posted in one of my blogs:

The only city in the world located on two continents is Istanbul (Constantinople), which has been the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman for more than 2000 years.

The number of archaeological excavations going on in Turkey every year is at least 150.

The oldest known human settlement is in Catalhoyuk, Turkey (7500 BC).

Temple of Artemis and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, are in Turkey.

Abraham was born in Sanliurfa in Southeastern Turkey.

Anatolia is the birthplace of historic legends, such as Omar (the poet), King Midas, Herodotus (the father of history) and St. Paul the Apostle.

Julius Ceasar proclaimed his celebrated words, "Veni, Vidi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) in Turkey when he defeated the Pontus, a formidable kingdom in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Turks introduced coffee to Europe.

Turks gave the Dutch their famous tulips.

St. Nicholas, who became popular as Father Christmas, was born in Demre on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast.

According to legend, Noah's Ark landed on Agri Dagi (Mount Ararat) in Eastern Turkey.

The last meal on Noah's Ark, a pudding with nearly 20 ingredients, is still served throughout Turkey.

The last home of Virgin Mary is in Selcuk.

St. John, St. Nicholas, St. Paul and St. Peter have all lived and prayed in Southern Anatolia.

Part of Turkey's southwestern shore was a wedding gift that Mark Anthony gave to Cleopatra.

Homer was born in Izmir on the west coast of Turkey and he depicted Troy in his Epic the Iliad.

Aesop, famous for his fables and parables, was born in Anatolia.

Leonardo da Vinci drew designs for a bridge over the Bosphorus, the strait that flows through Europe and Asia. It was never built.

Alexander the Great conquered a large territory in what is now Turkey and cut the Gordion Knot in the Phrygian capital (Gordium) not far from Turkey's present-day capital (Ankara).

Istanbul's Robert College (established in 1863), is the oldest American school outside the United States.

Early Christians escaping Roman persecution nearly 2000 years ago sheltered in Cappadocia in Central Anatolia.

The Amazons originated in Turkey's northeastern region.

The Famous Trojan Wars took place in western Turkey, around the site where a wooden statue of the Trojan Horse rests today.

According to Turkish tradition a stranger at one's doorstep is considered "A Guest from God" and should be accommodated accordingly.

The first church built by man (St. Peter's Church) is in Antioch (Antakya).

The first Ecumenical Council was held in Iznik.

Suleyman the Magnificent (the famous Ottoman Sultan) was a poet who wrote over 3000 poems, some of them criticizing the greed of mankind.

Turkey is a long-time member of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) since 1952.

Turkey provides 70 per cent of the world's hazelnuts; the nut in your chocolate bar was most probably grown in Turkey.

Istanbul has a 540-year-old covered shopping mall of 64 streets, 4000 shops, 22 entrances and 25,000 workers, -the famous Grand Bazaar.

The most valuable silk carpet in the world, is in the Mevlana Museum, Konya with 144 knots per square centimeter. In the 13th century, Marco Polo wrote "the best and handsomest of rugs are woven here, and also silks of crimson and other rich colors".

Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi was the first man who flew a significant distance using wings across the Bosphorus.

Anatolia is the location of the first known beauty contest, judged by Paris, with Aphrodite, Hera and Athena as leading participants.

Anatolia was producing wine as early as 4000BC.

Turkey receives children from around the world each year on 23rd April to "honor and cherish the freedom and independence of all people".

Anatolia is the location of Seven Churches of Asia.

Anatolia is the origin of the names of Paris, Philadelphia and Europe.

Here are links to a slide show about Turkey. If you would like it in Any other language than English or Turkish let me know.

Here are links to a slide show about Turkey.
TГјrkГ§e:
http://www.goldenhorn-rotary.com/ercu/ERCU_FLASH_tur.html

English:
http://www.goldenhorn-rotary.com/ercu/ERCU_FLASH_eng.html
And you really should view this:

steve m

St. Paul...was a Turk.....From ..Tarsus....SW Turkey....work puts you in debt with the Lord...(Romans 4)
Sir Paul....is a Brit......From Liverpool.....NW England......
We can work it out.....

Butcher, butcher..have you got Butterballs?

Mustafa S

I found that when I returned to Turkey that I didn't care for many of the Turkish people...They were like sheep. Just following who ever lead them around. So slow in getting any thing done. Narrow-minded. The ones that are "rich" is because they do business like Europe, or America. Koc for example. There is no customer service here, and no one stands up for their "rights". The Turkish women are selfish, they don't understand the concept of "building" a life together. It's all about me,me,me. Then they wonder why more of the Turkish men play around or are marrying foreign women. No it isn't always for the passport. Many of them continue to live in Turkey...

hanibal

You have No answers yet and first question you ask is this?
Thks

Iain B

All that remains of the old Ottoman empire.

Atila a

thanks giving day meat. Boun appetite.but don't forget to cooking.

ErAs

i agree with mindtrick...

Chianti Man

Avoid those sold by Bernard Matthews, no longer bootiful

Carrot Cruncher

They caused the biggest outbreak of bird flu in this green & pheasant land for a long while.....bootiful.

crazylady

they go gobble gobble gobble

Smurf

They are big birds and are eaten mostly at Christmas

fatherf.lotski

They come from South America.

scepticusb

Although Efesus and Troy are ancient greek monuments, the fact the Ottoman empire didn't force its subjects to convert to islam is a lie (at least for most of the Sultans) and the fact that hannibal overreacted a little bit (I thought swearing is bad) ,I believe that you must be covered by the anwser of HOTTurk or smurf's anwser if you meant the bird !
I believe that Armenian ,Greek-Pontiak ,Kurdic (Kurds are a different nation that turks)genocides did happen in the early 20th century,as a try to cleanse the old Ottoman Empire from the many nations that it included(maybe if I was Kemal and I was trying to keep Turkey alive I would do the same thing),also Turkey should find a better solution than invading Cyprus in 1974,but again,like mindtrick said,you shouldn't hear what everyone sais...

reem2

be careful of the locals, they put some kind of drug {ghb} type in youre drinks, they are real sleazy, never leave youre drinks unnattended

Enter Your Message or Comment

User Name:
User Email:
Post a comment: