1. Customs and Traditions inside Turkey
1- Turkey has a widespread religion, minority of ethnicity population and globally
admiring census banks of economy, with the currency, Turkish Lira.
2- Turkey’s religion, as you know, is Islam, but it has a Opposition Sunni
Recognition to the countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, the
European Union and also the Gulf States, Russia and Iran.
3- It has a GDP for over US$1.58 trillion with the census of 2014. It has a vibrant
reunion with the language, customs and traditions, its own economy within the
strongest relationship with the United States, the United Kingdom and the
European Union.
4- Turkey, you know is a reunion of the Turkish Shiite, Sunnite and 5% of
Christian community (today’s ranked with 6% - 7%) and ethnic minority of the
Government, ruled by the AK Party Community and Government.
5- Turkey is a main opposition couple and the deepest minority couple inside
Izmir, or Ankara, or Adana and Diyarbakir provinces.
 Izmir – the Main Opposition Party Couple with the Leftist Debates
(CHP – Republican and People’s Party)
 Ankara – the Governor AK Party – the Justice and Development Party
with a union of the strong right beliefs (AKP – Justice and Development
Party)
 Adana – the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – with the Russian-
Turkic Minority Publicity (especially the Russian Federation’s Turkic
Nations)
 Diyarbakir – the Democracy for Publicity (HDP) – with the Kurdish
minority organisation based on the South-eastern Anatolian Region
6- But nowadays, there is a strong polarisation towards the publicity and also
their people, effectively the Westerners - the Izmir Leftist Area - people have
been stuck over clarifying their religion and ethnicity.
7- People inside Turkey are trying to become prouder and more certain despite
the strong polarisation inside there. People in Turkey, are very kind and of a
very smiley faces, they wander the streets at the same position.
8- People’s traditions and customs were may be asked, but their ethnicities and
priorities may not be asked. Even somebody who wants to mix up what other
people say, they could be hit in a sincere way.
9- Its meals in Turkey are based on Ottoman kitchen, lots of tastes and
traditional foods remained from that culture. It has Ottoman Turkish varieties
of dishes and also meals which was a capital of the Ottoman Empire amongst
other Arabic-Turkic-Balkan countries for 600 years.
10- Its games are very important for Turkey, as a Turkic culture games and game
traditions called “Oil Wrestling”, “Scratching Balls”...etc. make its culture and
religion reflected.
11-Although there are bad days for Turks, we strongly remember that nation as
the beginning of civilisations throughout history.
12- As a cultural independence, we strongly reject to become derived from Arabic
culture, maybe we came from Islamic traditions, but WE’RE NOT ARAB!
 Gokce Kavak
 L26B1 2015511027
 Dokuz Eylul University (DEU)
 Date: Saturday, 14 November 2015