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22 unusual facts about Turkey


Ali Haydar Saltık

He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1981 - 1983) and then Commander of the Turkish Army (1983 - 1985).

Anadolu Agency

It also struggled against submissive attitude of some foreign and Turkish newspapers in Istanbul.

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AA is the first news agency in Turkey to employ a photojournalist holding a paragliding license and it is also the first that went 630 meters down below the surface in a coal mine in Zonguldak, Turkey, for photographing.

Energy in Turkey

Hydroelectricity in Turkey is the largest renewable source of electricity however solar power looks likely to increase rapidly.

Erebuni Fortress

Argishti left a similar inscription at the Urartian capital of Tushpa (current-day Van) as well, stating that he brought 6,600 prisoners of war from Khate and Tsupani to populate his new city.

Evdeizle

Evdeizle is the first and the biggest online DVD rental company in Turkey.

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Evdeizle's subscribers can choose their DVDs from a wide range of DVD titles which are released in Turkey.

Foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey

The particular case of Hatay put apart, as of 1 June 2006, Antalya Province was in the lead in the number of foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey with 5566 lots sold, provinces of Aydın (3998), Muğla (3035), İstanbul (1463) and İzmir (722) occupying the following places.

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Purchasing property in Turkey has become more popular with holiday home owners and investors around the globe.

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Foundations also constitute part of the assets held by Vakıfbank, a bank originally founded with the purpose of putting the foundations in value for the economy of Turkey and named in reference to them.

İhlas News Agency

IHA has 78 Data link Stations in Turkey, all of which are equipped with Betacam SP/SX and digital editing facilities, A/B Roll as well as post production suits.

İsmail Bilen

He was elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey in 1974.

İsmail Rüştü Aksal

İsmail Rüştü Aksal was a civil servant and politician in Turkey.

Istanbul metalworkers strike of 2008–09

The Istanbul metalworkers strike of 2008-2009 was a strike by metalworkers at a sintering plant in Istanbul, Turkey.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

Lernanist

It is home to the descendants of Armenian settlers from Van who survived the Armenian Genocide.

Olba

Olba, a Roman Catholic see in the former Roman province of Isauria, in present Turkey

Orfeon Records

The first record company in Turkey, it was founded by the Blumenthal Family in 1912.

Peace at Home, Peace in the World

In Turkish, "Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh" was first pronounced by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 20 April 1931 to the public and later accepted as the policy of the Republic of Turkey in foreign relations.

Pontophaedusella

This species is known only from the type locality ("Prov. Trabzon, FF 03, 2 km SW Of").

Tourkia

Turkey, a country in southeastern Europe and western Asia

Uzman Konut TV Limited Coop

Uzman Konut TV was established in November 2010 on the facts of the promising growth of real estate sector in Turkey and now it is one of the leading local real estate agency.


2010–11 Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball Season

Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball 2010–2011 season is the 2010–2011 basketball season for Turkish professional basketball club Galatasaray SK.

302d Fighter Squadron

With the transition of AFRES to Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), the squadron deployed several times since late 1992 to Turkey to help enforce the no-fly zone over Iraq and to Italy to support UN air operations in the Balkans.

A. Thomas Kraabel

The interest continued in his experience as a field archaeologist, in 1966, for the Harvard-Cornell Archaeological Exploration of the site of ancient Sardis in Turkey.

Akdoğan

Akdoğan, Kastamonu, a village in the district of Kastamonu, Kastamonu Province, Turkey

Andrew Surmani

He has toured throughout the USA, Europe and Japan, and has performed in the Istanbul International Jazz Festival (Turkey), Jazz à Juan (Juan les Pins, France), Umbria (Italy), Wigan (England) and the Lake Biwa (Japan) jazz festivals.

Arkadaş Association

Arkadaş Association is an Israel-Turkey friendship organization located in Yehud, Israel.

Artificial induction of immunity

This was practiced in ancient times in China and India, and imported into Europe, via Turkey, around 1720 by Lady Montagu and perhaps others.

Avea

AveA (Aria and Aycell, AandA), the sole GSM 1800 mobile operator of Turkey, was founded in 2004 and has reached a nationwide customer base of 12.8 million as of the end of 2011.

Ayub Thakur

Dr. Ayyub Thakur also attended the 1991 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign minister meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the 1993 OIC summit meeting in Dakar, Senegal and World tactics did not yield the desired result.

Azra Akın

Thus, she represented Turkey in the Miss World beauty pageant which was held on December 7, 2002 at Alexandra Palace, London, which she also won.

Beldibi

Beldibi, Alanya, a village in the district of Alanya, Antalya Province, Turkey

Çamlıdere

Çamlıdere, Mersin, a village in Toroslar district of Mersin Province, Turkey

Čardak

Çardak, a town and a district in Denizli Province, Turkey

Cryptocephalus virens

These beetles can be found in Southern and Central Europe from Italian Alps and Bavaria to Southern Poland, Russia, Turkey, East Palearctic ecozone and the Near East.

Çukurbağ

Çukurbağ, Mut, a village in Mut district of Mersin Province, Turkey

Dorina Neave

Apart from her books about Turkey, Lady Dorina has historical significance as the last of the "landed gentry" to live in Dagnam Park, before the policies of Britain's post-war Labour government constrained her to reside in her second home in Anglesey, owing to a compulsory purchase order made by the LCC.

Ercüment Kafkasyalı

Ercüment Kafkasyalı (born 13 September 1985 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish football player.

Foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey

Therefore, unlike many other European countries where most of the land area is privately owned, much of the land in Turkey is still held by the state.

Geranium caespitosum

The Keres use roots crushed into a paste to treat sores, and the whole plant as turkey food.

Glenwood Cemetery West Long Branch

Mike Donlin, aka "Turkey Mike: (May 30, 1878 – September 24, 1933), Major League Baseball Player and movie actor. He was known as "Turkey Mike" because of his unique strut.

Görece

Görece is a village in the Menderes district of Izmir Province, Turkey.

Gülhan Şen

Şen graduated from Muhsin Adil Binal Ilkogretim Okulu (secondary school) and Kabatas Erkek Lisesi (high school) in Turkey, and studied radio and television at Istanbul University Communication Faculty.

Gündüz Tekin Onay

There were several sports persons at his funeral such as UEFA vice presicent Şenes Erzik, former TFF president Haluk Ulusoy, Turkey manager Fatih Terim, Sivasspor chairman Mecnun Otyakmaz, and national footballer Emre Belözoğlu.

Harun Tekin

Sami Harun Tekin (born 28 June 1977 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish singer, musician, and poet.

HSC Speedrunner IV

Originally it was planned that she would be set in traffic between Brindisi, Italy and Çeşme, Turkey.

Ibrahim Sirkeci

He authored several books including Cultures of Migration published by University of Texas Press in 2011, and The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany, was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2006.

İnönü

Second Battle of İnönü, fought between 26 and 31 March 1921 near İnönü in present-day Eskişehir Province, Turkey

John Burgon

Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English merchant trading in Turkey who was also a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities department of the British Museum.

Karaali

Karaali, Amasya, a village in the district of Amasya, Amasya Province, Turkey

Karaurgan

Karaurgan is a flag stop railway station near the village of Karaurgan in the Kars Province of Turkey.

Kibyra

Kibyra (sometimes also spelled as Cibyra) is an ancient city and an archaeological site in south-west Turkey, near the modern town of Gölhisar, in Burdur Province.

Kurt Krenn

Krenn argued against Turkey's entrance into the European Union, warning against the 'islamisation' of Europe and calling Islam a "very aggressive kind of religion" that will not easily allow for the political unity with the Christian faith.

Luther George Simjian

Born to Armenian parents, Luther Simjian grew up in Antep, Turkey, but he left his family, he went first to Beirut, later Marseille.

M. K. Perker

Kutlukhan Perker (born November 2, 1972, Istanbul) is one of the most prominent and internationally recognized artists of his native Turkey.

Manya Shochat

In World War I, the Turks deported the Shochats and others who were Russian nationals to Bursa, in Turkey.

Mithridates II of Cius

Mithridates of Cius (in Greek Mιθριδάτης or Mιθραδάτης; lived c. 386–302 BC, ruled 337–302 BC) succeeded his kinsman or father Ariobarzanes II in 337 BC as ruler of the Greek town of Cius in Mysia (today part of Turkey).

Mustafabeyli

Mustafabeyli, Adana, a town in Ceyhan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Nochiya Region

The sub-district of Nochiya is a mountainess area with possibly the most spectacular natural beauty in all of southern Turkey, it lies very close to the Iraq-Iran borders and at the time contained some 40 Assyrian and Kurdish villages.

OFK Grbalj

The second round draw was not so favorable for the Montenegrins, facing them off against an ambitious Sivasspor of Turkey, yet it was in these two games that the motivated Grbalj side produced the most breathtaking displays of football.

Paul Dombrecht

He is a professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and regularly teaches masterclasses in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Greece and Israel.

Pervin Buldan

Pervin Buldan ( 6 November 1967, Hakkâri Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin.

Shana Cox

Competing in her first major competition for Great Britain, Cox won a gold medal in the women's 4x400 metres relay at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a team that also included Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu and Perri Shakes-Drayton.

TAI/AgustaWestland T129

On 17 August 2011, Turkish Aerospace Industries announced the first successful flight of the T129 prototype "P6", that was produced at its facilities in Ankara, Turkey.

Turunçlu

Turunçlu, Kozan, a village in Kozan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Wilhelm Röpke

Röpke's opposition to the German Nazi regime led him (with his family) in 1933 to emigrate to Istanbul, Turkey, where he taught until 1937, before accepting a position at the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where he lived until his death, in 1966.

Yedi Kule

the Yedikule neighborhood, where the fortress is located, in the district of Fatih in Istanbul, Turkey.

Yolpınar

Yolpınar, Suluova, a village in the district of Suluova, Amasya Province, Turkey