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.
