This document provides information about Turkey, including its geography, population, cities, currency, popular people, sports, dances, tourist attractions, stereotypes, and relationship with Latvia. Turkey has a population of over 75 million people and its largest city is Istanbul, the former capital and cultural and economic center. Some of Turkey's most famous people are author Orhan Pamuk and Olympic medalist Servet Tazegul. Football is very popular and Turkey has its own traditional dances like halay and horon. The document also aims to address common stereotypes about Turkish people and culture.

1. Overcoming Prejudices
through Fairy Tales
COMENIUS MULTILATERAL PROJECT IN
TURKEY
2013

2. Turcija - Turkey - Türkiye
Official language: Turkish
Declaration of Republic: 29 October 1923
Capital: Ankara
Largest city: Istanbul
Largest resort: Antalya
Population: 75,627,384 (It is 38 times more than in
Latvia ( 2 000 000 inhabitants))
Area: 783 562 km² ( It is 12 times bigger than Latvia)
Bordered by: Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Iran, Syria and Iraq.

3. Istanbul
Economic, cultural and
historical heart of Turkey.
Population: 13,9 million
Istanbul was European Capital
of Culture in 2010.
There are many historical
monuments in Istanbul –
churches, mosques, castles
and synagogues.

4. Currency
The Turkish lira is currency in
Turkey
The Turkish lira’s symbol –
Value:1 Turkish lira = 0.56 U.S.
dollars

5. Popular People of Turkey
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish novelist,
screenwriter and
academic.
Recipient of the 2006
Nobel Prize in Literature.

6. Popular People of Turkey
Servet Tazegül
Sport: Taekwondo
Won gold medal in
London 2012 Summer
Olympics and bronze
medal in Beijing 2008
Summer Olympics.

7. Popular People of Turkey
Aslı Çakır Alptekin
Sport: Middle- distance
Won gold medal in London
2012

8. Football
The most popular sport in Turkey is football.
Turkey's top teams isFenerbahçe, Galatasaray and
Beşiktaş.
In 2000, Galatasaray won the UEFA Cup and UEFA Super
Cup.
Turks are big football fans.

9. Dances
There are many types of turkish dance: Bar,
Halay, Horon, Zeybek and others.
Turks also have they own
national costumes.
Halay
Horon
Zeybek

10. Turkish slippers

11. Turkish coffee and plates

12. Pamukkale – Cotton castle
The city contains hot springs and terraces of carbonate minerals left by the
flowing water.

13. Cappadocia - Kapadokya
Kapadokya is a historical region in Central Anatolia. It is a popular tourist
destination.

14. Stereotypes
It is said that the people have dark skin, dark
eyes and black hair.

15. Stereotypes
Turkish people have big families

16. Stereotypes
Turkish are dangerous people

17. Stereotypes
Turkish people are good at trade. They are rich,
but at the same times they can be poor.

18. Stereotypes
In Turkey, people buy only Mercedes or BMW.

19. Stereotypes
Turkish people love to watch soap operas.

20. Latvia and Turkey

21. Latvia and Turkey
Turkey’s Embassy was opened in Riga in 2005.
Latvia’s Embassy was opened in Ankara in 2005.
Latvia’s ex-president Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga was
participating in opening ceremony.

22. Latvia and Turkey
In 2003 Latvia was playing football with Turkey.
The luck was in Latvia’s side and Latvia won two
times.

23. Latvia and Turkey
Turkey won Eurovision Song Contest, which was
in Riga in 2003, for the first time with song
‘’Everyway That I Can’ ’by Sertab Erener.

24. Thank you for attention!