TRAVEL TURKEY

 ABOUT TURKEY :Modern Turkey is country of 780,576 square kilometres,somewhat larger than the state of Texas or France and Great Britain combined.It is bordered by the Mediterranean,Aegean,Black Seas,by Greece,Bulgaria,Georgia,Armenia,Nahcivan, Iran, Iraq,and Syria about three percent of country in Europe.South and east Dardanelles,The Sea of Marmara and Bosphoruos stretches the peninsula known as Asia Minor or Anatolia.Eight thousand two hundred ten kilometres of its border are shores lined with fertile plains:these rise quickly to high,dry,central plataue where nineteen mountains incluiding Mt Ararat,over 3500 meters high.The country has three main temparete climates:Mediterranean in the south,Black Sea in the north and steppe throughout most of Anatolia.There are four naturel lakes:Van,Tuz,Beysehir,Egirdir.Two large man-made lakes on Euphrates River back up behind the Keban and Ataturk dams.A number of its rivers well known in antiquity :Euphrates,Tigris,Halys,Araxes,Sangarius,Meander and Pyramus.

 The capital of Turkey Ankara located in Central Anatolia.In 1950 the population is numbered about 20 million:by the turn of century it is estimated that the population  will be 70 million.More than fifty percent of the lobar force is engaged in agriculture. The main cash crops include tobacco (Turkey is the world's sixth largest producer)cereals,cotton,olive oil, mohair,wool,silk, figs, raisins, nuts, fruits,opium,gum, and sugar.Antimony,borate,copper,and chrome are minded in sufficient quantities  to be exported.In recent years a number of industries have become important in the national economy.These include food and beverages,clothing and cloth manufacture,chemicals,ceramics and motor vehicles.

The Republic of Turkey (Turkiye Cumhuriyeti) is a democratic, secular, social state founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.   The monetary unit of Turkey is the Yeni Turkish Lira.There are some metal coins, but most of the money is in paper bills.The value of the Yeni Turkish Lira floats in relation to international currencies.   Turkish is one of the Turkish languages used in the Middle East, and is thought to have originated in Central Asia where the first known Turkish tribes were living.