Stuudents of Albania present Turkey

4. Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country
located mainly on the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia, with a small
portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, the part
of Turkey in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the
Bosphorous and the Dardanelles (collectively called the Turkish Straits).
Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest, the Black Sea to
its north, Georgia to its northeast, Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of
Nakhchivan and Iran to its east, Iraq and Syria to its southeast, the
Mediterranean Sea to its south, and the Aegean Sea to its west. Across the
Black Sea lie Romania, Ukraine and Russia, and across the Mediterranean
Sea lie Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, the Gaza Strip (Palestinian territories), Egypt
and Libya, although none of these share a land border with Turkey. Istanbul
is the largest city in the country while Ankara is the capital. Approximately
70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish,[8][9] while
Kurds are the largest minority at anywhere from 15 to 20 percent of the
population.

5. Some henges at Göbekli Tepe were erected as far back
as 9600 BC, predating those of Stonehenge, England, by
over seven millennia.

6. The Lion Gate in Hattusa, capital of
the Hittite Empire. The city's history dates
back to the 6th millennium BC.

7. The theatre
of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) was
built in the 4th century BC by Mausolus,
the Persian satrap (governor) of Caria.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Tomb of
Mausolus) was one of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World.

8. The Library of
Celsus in Ephesus was
built by the Romans in
114–117. The Temple of
Artemis in Ephesus, built
by
king Croesus of Lydia in
the 6th century BC, was
one of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient
World.

9. Originally a church, later a mosque, and
now a museum, the Hagia
Sophia in Istanbul was built by
the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 532–
537 AD

10. The largest mosque in Turkey, the Çamlıca
Mosque of Istanbul has four minarets that
span 107.1 metres, a measurement that
refers to the Battle of Manzikert

11. Topkapı and Dolmabahçe
palaces were the primary
residences of
the Ottoman Sultans and
the administrative centre
of the empire between
1465 to 1856 and 1856 to
1922, respectively

12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the
Turkish Republic, visiting Istanbul University after
its reorganisation in 1933 as a mixed-gender institution
of higher education with multiple faculties.

13. Eighteen
female deputies j
oined
the Turkish
Parliament with
the 1935 general
elections.
Turkish women
gained the right
to vote a decade
or more before
women in
Western
European
countries like
France, Italy,
and Belgium, a
mark of the far-
reaching social
changes initiated
by Atatürk

14. A photograph of Lake Van and
the Armenian Church of Akhtamar. Van is
the largest lake in the country and is
located in eastern Anatolia.

15. Sumela Monastery in the Pontic
Mountains, which form
an ecoregion with diverse temperate
rainforest types, flora and fauna in
northern Anatolia.

16. Skyscrapers of Levent business district
in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and
leading economic centre

17. Cappadocia is a region created by the
erosion of soft volcanic stone by the wind
and rain for centuries. The area is a
popular tourist destination, having many
sites with unique geological, historic, and
cultural features.

18. Whirling Dervishes of the Sufi Mevlevi
Order, founded by the followers of the
13th-century Sufi mystic and
poet Rumi in Konya, during a Sema. The
ceremony is one of the 11 elements of
Turkey on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural
Heritage Lists
Two Musician
Girls (left) and The
Tortoise Trainer (right)
by Osman Hamdi Bey,
at the Pera Museum.

19. Turkish
coffee with Turkish
delight. Turkish coffee
is a UNESCO-listed
intangible cultural
heritage of Turks
Turkey won the
silver medal at
the 2010 FIBA World
Championship