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Turkey Facts

Turkey Facts and History

January 28, 2023February 24, 2023 localcollegeexplorer

Turkey – the gateway to the Orient Turkey, the country full of traditions located between the Orient and the Occident, is only 3% on the European and 97% on the Asian continent. Still, it belongs to Europe. The most famous big cities are Ankara and the strongly western influenced Istanbul. The European area is called […]

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Turkey Shopping, Culinary, and Accommodation

May 13, 2022May 14, 2022 localcollegeexplorer

Shopping Overview The Kapali Carsi Bazaar in Istanbul offers a wide range of jewelry, carpets, ornate lamps, hookahs, and antiques. Also textiles, embroidery, leather goods, bags, calendars, inlaid work, hand-painted ceramics and tiles. In all major cities and in tourist areas, souvenir hunters will find what they are looking for at flea and street markets. […]

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Turkey Literature

December 18, 2021December 25, 2021 localcollegeexplorer

Never as in recent years has Turkish literature been influenced by external events. This appears all the more true if we consider that substantial changes occurred at the beginning of each decade, coinciding with military interventions in politics, namely in 1960, 1971 and 1980. Thus we see that following the coup in 1960 capitalism was […]

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Turkey Population

Turkey Population and Religion

October 11, 2021September 22, 2021 localcollegeexplorer

Population About 75% of the population are ethnic Turks. The Christian minority, which was very strong up to the First World War, and the group of Jews are insignificant today; both live mainly in Istanbul (around 18,000 Greeks, around 68,000 Armenians). The Kurds in Turkey (about 19% of the total population) are not officially recognized […]

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