Turkey is located between Asia and Europe, bounded by seas and neighboring countries. Its largest city and former capital is Istanbul, though the current capital is Ankara. Turkey has a diverse landscape ranging from plains to many mountain ranges, and a population of over 80 million people. Turkish cuisine varies regionally but is known for dishes like kebabs, baklava, and menemen. The economy relies on industries like textiles, automotive, and energy as well as agriculture, tourism, and mining. Turkey has a long history with influences from civilizations like the Hittites, Greeks, Romans, and Ottomans. It is now a republic founded in 1923, and has many historical and natural tourist sites.

1. Turkey

2. Location
• Turkey is known as a bridge located between Asia and Europe. Our
country is a kind of peninsula which is surrounded by water from
three sides.
• Turkey is bounded to the north by the Black Sea, to the south by the
Mediterrenean, Syria and Iraq, and to the east by Iran, Armenia, to
the northeast by Georgia, to the northwest by Bulgaria and Greece
and to the west by Aegean Sea. Our country is divided by Bosphorus
and Dardenells Strait, so we call our country as Anatolian side and
European side.
• Its capital is Ankara, but the most famous city is Istanbul.

3. • Turkey is one of the
biggest countries in the
region with more than 80
million people and
814,578 square
kilometres land.
The landscape
• Turkey has a various landscape
from one side to another. In the
center, there are a lot of plains
and meadows, in the other parts
there are a lot of mountains that I
cannot count. Among the most
famous ones are Istranca
Mountains, Köroğlu, Kaçkar,
Toros, Tahtalı, Süphan,
Palandöken etc... The highest
mountain of Turkey is Mount
Ararat (Ağrı Dağı in Turkish) with
5137 meters above the sea level.
Population of the country

5. Food
• Turkish Cuisine is really rich because our country is big in
terms of landscape and has a rich history that goes back to
thousand years ago. In different parts of the country you can
see different types of food. Meal types change from region to
region. For example, in the Black Sea region the cuisine is
based on fish. You can find everything made by fish. In the
middle and the east part of the country, you can eat meals
made by meat (kebap or minced meat), beef, bulgur, pastry,
erişte (a kind of Turkish macaroni) and hot pepper. As for
the Mediterrenean and Aegen Sea parts, you can eat every
kind of vegetables, pastry, and again fish and meat.
• We also have pizza, macaroni or hamburger as in European
countries or America.

6. • The most popular ones are
Zeytinyağlı Yaprak Sarması,
İmambayıldı, Tas Kebabı,
Çiğköfte, İçli Köfte, Analı Kızlı,
İskender, Mantı, Baklava,
Hamsi Tava, Hünkarbeğendi,
Etli Kuru Fasülye, Lahmacun,
Cacık, Lokum, and different
soups and salads. Which one
is our favorite is the most
difficult question because
Turkish people has a big
appetite and most of them are
not choosy in eating if they are
Famous drinks
• The most famous
beverages are Turkish
Coffee, Çay (tea),
Şalgam (a kind of hot
beverage made by
turnip), Ayran (made by
yoghurt), Rakı, different
types of wine and mineral
waters. We also drink
Linden, Green Tea,
Hawthorn a lot.
Traditional dishes

8. The principal
economic activities
• Turkish economy is
basically based on
industry, engineering,
agriculture, tourism,
mining, animal
husbandry, forestry and
natural resources.
The main industries
• Textile, energy, automative,
boron, copper, iron, oil, natural
gas, steel, coal, petroleum
products, cement, glass, certain
chemicals, pharmaceuticals, tile,
brick, leather, plastic, paper
products, sugar and other food-
processing industries.

9. • The climate in the
northern part of the
country is sea subtropical
while the climate in the
southern part is
temperate. In the eastern
part, the climate is
continental.
• In the east the climate is
harsh because of the
mountains. Marmara
region is hot in summer,
and cold in winter
because of Balkans. And
the Mediterrenean
Region is mild and the
north is rainy because of
the Black Sea.
The weather

11. The history of Turkey
• Turkey is a bridge for cultures from Asia to Europe, so
a lot of different cultures has lived there because of its
geopolitical importance throughout history.
• Early urban society began in Anatolia during the
Neolithic Age (10th-5th millennium BC), with
Göbeklitepe, Çatalhöyük.
• Then, Assyrian Period, Hittites, Kingdom of Urartu,
Phrygia, Lydia, Commagene Kingdom, Persians,
Greeks, Roman Empire, Seljuk, Byzantine and
Ottoman Period dominated the land. These
• are only some of the cultures and countries lived here.
At last, in 1923 Turkish Republic was founded by our
great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

13. The most popular tourist destinations
• Tourist destinations in Turkey is natural, historical or
geographical and there are so many tourist attractions that we
cannot count in number. Whereever you go, you can find
something touristic. That's why I only would like to talk about
UNESCO list in our country. There are 16 properties inscribed
on the UNESCO World Heritage List: Great Mosque and
Hospital of Divriği, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of
Cappadocia, Historic Areas of Istanul, Hattusha – the Hittite
Capital, Nemrut Mountain, Hierapolis – Pamukkale, Xanthos-
Letoon, City of Safranbolu, Archeological site of Troy, Selimiye
Mosque and its social complex, Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük,
Pergamon, Cumalıkızık(Bursa): the birth of Ottoman Empire,
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape,
Ephesus and Archeological Site of Ani