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25 unusual facts about Turkey


Anadol

Anadol was Turkey's first domestic mass-production passenger vehicle, and the second Turkish car after the ill-fated Devrim sedan of 1961.

Anadolu Agency

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

The newly founded agency also had to defend the National Struggle in the world, inform the world public opinion on Turkey's rightful demands and act carefully against tricks of some circles.

Asaf Ataseven

Asaf Ataseven (born 1932, died 2003) was a Turkish doctor who served as chief physician at Gureba Hospital in Istanbul.

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.

Evbazar

com is an internet company created to provide a Multi Listing Real Estate service to Turkey.

Evdeizle

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

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

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.

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).

Galatasaray Mobile

"Avea" (A ve (and) A: Aria and Aycell) is one of three GSM operators in Turkey.

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 Rüştü Aksal

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

In the 18th government of Turkey (16 January 1949 – 22 May 1950) he served as the Minister of Finance.

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.

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").

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

Victorious Sect

The Victorious Sect (or Taifatul Mansura Group) is a transnational Turkish jihadist group operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.


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.

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.

Akarca

Akarca, Kozan, a village in Kozan district of Adana 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.

At Va'Ani

The song was performed twelfth on the night (following Belgium's Ann Christy with "Gelukkig zijn" and preceding Turkey's Semiha Yanki with "Seninle Bir Dakika").

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.

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

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.

Erenköy

Erenköy, Murgul, a village in the district of Murgul, Artvin Province, Turkey

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.

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.

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.

IEL

Istanbul High School, Istanbul (Erkek) Lisesi, a highschool in Istanbul, Turkey

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.

İsmail Bilen

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

Karaurgan

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

Kerem Kabadayı

He was born on December 20, 1977, in Ankara, Turkey, to Ülkü (Yulku) Kabadayı and his wife Müjde.

Kesab

By the efforts of the Armenian community of Paris, Cardinal Krikor Bedros Aghajanian and the Papal representative to Syria and Lebanon Remi Leprert, many parts of Kesab inhabited by Armenians were separated from Turkey and placed within the Syrian boundaries.

Küçükmenderes River

Küçük Menderes, "Little Meander"), Cayster River or Kaystros River is located south of İzmir, Turkey.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shady Lady

The song competed in the second semi-final on 22 May, performing 4th in the running order, preceding Turkey's Mor ve Ötesi with "Deli" and preceding Lithuania's Jeronimas Milius with "Nomads in the Night".

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.

SS Taroona

Hellas remained laid-up at Elefsina bay until May 1989 when she was towed out of the bay to Aliağa in Turkey and scrapped.

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.

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.)

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.

Yılanlı

Yılanlı, Çamlıdere, a village in the district of Çamlıdere, Ankara Province, Turkey

Yolpınar

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

Yoncalı

Yoncalı, Şavşat, a village in the district of Şavşat, Artvin Province, Turkey