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27 unusual facts about Turkey


Anadolu Agency

The history of the Anadolu Agency (AA) is almost identical to that of the Republic of Turkey.

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The number of photographs at Anadolu Agency's digital archives has reached nearly 1.5 million as the biggest digital photo archive in Turkey.

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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.

Bekir Sami Kunduh

He was one of the founders of the Progressive Republican Party of Turkey.

Dalassenos

The family's name derives from their ancestral home, the city of Dalassa, modern Talas in eastern Turkey.

Erebuni Fortress

Van as a root is also present in numerous other placenames in historical Armenia, including the city Van, Lake Sevan, and Nakhichevan, so it is probable that the van in Yerevan is another direct translation of the root.

Evdeizle

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

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The principles governing purchase of property by foreign (i.e. non-Turkish) nationals in Turkey is governed by the 1934 Property Act (Law Nr. 2644 dated 22 November 1934).

Füreya Koral

She had 32 expositions in several countries, including those in galleries such as Salon D'Octobre in Paris, Museum of Modern Arts in Ciudad de Mexico, Napstkovo Muzeum in Prague, Smitshonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and as well as various art galleries in Turkey.

Galatasaray Mobile

Its competitors, Turkcell and Vodafone Turkey, have both been founded in 1994 and use the GSM 900 frequency range while Avea uses the GSM 1800 range.

Hâlit Ziyâ Konuralp

Turkish physician and professor; known as the pioneer of plastic surgery in Turkey.

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

İsmail Bilen (1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician.

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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.

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").

Scouting and Guiding in Armenia

The first Armenian Scouting groups were organized in 1910 in orphanages in Van, present day Turkey.

Tourkia

Turkey, a country in southeastern Europe and western Asia

Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği

Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği (TYB - Turkish Authors' Association) is an association for writers in Turkey.

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.


1976 Cleveland Browns season

Third-string quarterback Dave Mays helped lead the team to that victory, while defensive end Joe "Turkey" Jones' pile-driving sack of quarterback Terry Bradshaw fueled the heated rivalry between the two teams.

2010 Men's European Volleyball League

In the final four tournament, the semi-final matches featured Portugal and Spain defeating Romania (3–2) and Turkey (3–0), respectively, to produce a rematch of the 2007 final.

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.

2011 Turkish Cypriot demonstrations

The protests were heavily publicized in Turkey due to the aggressive chants that were made against Turkey and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

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.

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.

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.

Ballıca

Ballıca Cave, a cave in the district of Pazar, Tokat Province, Turkey

Büyükeceli

In May 2010, Russia and Turkey signed an agreement that a subsidiary of Rosatom would build, own, and operate a power plant at Akkuyu comprising four 1,200 MWe VVER units.

Çamlıbel

Çamlıbel, Silifke, a village in Silifke district of Mersin Province, Turkey

Čardak

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

Caria

Lemprière notes that "As Caria probably abounded in figs, a particular sort has been called Carica, and the words In Care periculum facere, have been proverbially used to signify the encountering of danger in the pursuit of a thing of trifling value." The region of Caria continues to be an important fig-producing area to this day, accounting for most fig production in Turkey, which is the world's largest producer of figs.

Çukurbağ

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

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

Economy of Istanbul

Levent and Maslak financial districts are home to the headquarters of Turkey's largest companies and banks, as well as the local headquarters of global giants of the financial sector such as Citibank, Merrill Lynch, J. P. Morgan, HSBC, ABN Amro, Fortis, ING Bank, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Banca di Roma, UniCredit, WestLB, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and many others.

Ercüment Kafkasyalı

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

Euchalcia emichi

The larvae had been recorded in Turkey on a yellow flowered Nonea sp.

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.

Formula-G

The last race was done in Ankara, Turkey on 2007.The first and second positions in this year was held by the teams of Istanbul Technical University.

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.

Gökhan Özoğuz

Gökhan Özoğuz is one of the four jury members in the third season of the reality television singing competition O Ses Türkiye aired by Star TV, the Turkish version of the television show Voice.

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.

Harun Tekin

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

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, Eskişehir

The battles were named after the town, and İsmet İnönü, the Turkish commanding officer during the battles and future President and Prime Minister of Turkey, was given his surname in honor of his services during the battles.

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.

Latvia national under-17 football team

The following players have been called up for the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship matches against Northern Ireland, Turkey and Luxembourg in Belfast and Dungannon in November 2013.

Muhammed al-Ahari

During September 2005 he attended the First Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey, where he presented a paper on links between Freemasonry and the Bektashi community.

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.

Nurhan Çınar

She played in the Turkey U18 girls' national team, and won the bronze medal at the 2011 EuroHockey U18 Girls' Championship III held in Smolevichi, Minsk, Belarus.

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.

Oktay Sinanoğlu

A book in which he was interviewed about his life and works, under the name The Turkish Einstein, Oktay Sinanoglu (Turkish: Türk Aynştaynı Oktay Sinanoğlu Kitabı) was edited by Turkish writer Emine Çaykara and published in 2001 in Turkey.

Once a week

The Once a Week Show (2007–2008), an Irish television series presented by Dustin the Turkey

Paul Dombrecht

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

Polyplex

With its headquarters in NOIDA, adjoining New Delhi the company has four PET Film manufacturing facilities–one in Khatima and one in Bajpur, in the state of Uttarakhand, India, one in Rayong province, Thailand, and one in Tekirdağ, Turkey (owned and operated by Polyplex (Thailand) Public Company Ltd. and Polyplex Europa Polyester Film Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. respectively, its wholly owned subsidiaries).

Robert John Braidwood

The expedition to the Amuq Plain (in the state of Hatay, Turkey) was one of the first scientific archaeological surveys, involving the rigorous dating of artifacts through careful mapping and record-keeping.

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.

Taulant Xhaka

He was part of the Swiss U-17 squad that played in the 2008 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship in Antalya, Turkey.

Turkish Grand Prix

As part of the podium ceremony after the 2006 race, the winner's trophy was presented by Mehmet Ali Talat, who was introduced to television viewers via the captions as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state which is recognised only by Turkey.

Turunçlu

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

Ulus Square

(Atatürk is the founder of modern Turkey, Çankırı is the name of a city to the north of Ankara, Cumhuriyet means Republic and Anfartalar was the location of a critical battle during the Gallipoli Campaign.)

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.

Yekta Uzunoglu

Yekta alleges that the police charges against him were part of a conspiracy orchestrated by the Turkish government under Tansu Çiller and former communists including foreign minister Jaromin Johanes who now lives in Turkey.

Yolpınar

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

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Yolpınar, Vezirköprü, a village in the district of Vezirköprü, Samsun Province, Turkey