ÇANAKKALE – TROY

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe

DENİZLİ - PAMUKKALE

Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast.

ERZURUM - ÇİFTEMİNARE

The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. Separating Anatolia and Thrace are the Sea of Marmara and the Turkish Straits (the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles), which are commonly reckoned to delineate the boundary between Europe and Asia, thereby making Turkey a transcontinental country of significant geostrategic importance.

GİRESUN - FESTIVAL

Ethnic Turks form the majority of the population, followed by the Kurds. The predominant religion in Turkey is Islam. The official language is Turkish.

The Anatolian peninsula (also called Asia Minor), comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited regions in the world due to its location at the intersection of Asia and Europe

İZMİR – CLOCK TOWER

Turkey is a parliamentary representative democracy. Since its foundation as a republic in 1923, Turkey has developed a strong tradition of secularism

SAFRANBOLU

. Turkey's constitution governs the legal framework of the country. It sets out the main principles of government and establishes Turkey as a unitary centralized state.

KARS - ANİ RUINS

The capital city of Turkey is Ankara. The territory of Turkey is subdivided into 81 provinces for administrative purposes.

GİRESUN - PLATEAU

The provinces are organized into 7 regions for census purposes; however, they do not represent an administrative structure. Each province is divided into districts, for a total of 923 districts.

KÜTAHYA - AIZONIA

KÜTAHYA - TILE

MUĞLA - FETHİYE

MUĞLA - FETHİYE - EKİNCİK

NEVŞEHİR - KAPADOKYA

SAMSUN

SİVAS - ÇİFTEMİNARE

TRABZON – SÜMELA MANASTRY

İSTANBUL – KIZ KULESİ

İSTANBUL – KÖPRÜLER

İSTANBUL - VIEW

Turkey has a very diverse culture that is a blend of various elements of the Oğuz Turkic, Anatolian, Ottoman (which was itself a continuation of both Greco-Roman and Islamic cultures) and Western culture and traditions, which started with the Westernization of the Ottoman Empire and still continues today.

İSTANBUL - BEYOĞLU

ANTALYA - MANAVGAT

ÇORUM - ALACAHÖYÜK

İSTANBUL – YEREBATAN SARNICI

KONYA - MEVLEVİLER

This mix originally began as a result of the encounter of Turks and their culture with those of the peoples who were in their path during their migration from Central Asia to the West.

MANİSA – SAT RUINS

MERSİN – SİLİFKE – KIZ KALESİ

URFA - HARRAN

VAN – HOŞAP TOWER

ADIYAMAN - NEMRUT

ADIYAMAN - NEMRUT

ANKARA – RESİM HEYKEL MÜZESİ

ANTAKYA – MOZAİK MUSEUM

ANTAKYA – MOZAİK MUSEUM

ANTALYA - ASPENDOS

ANTALYA – MYRA – ROCKY TOMBS

ANTALYA – SİDE – APOLLON TEMPLE

ANTALYA – SİDE - THEATRE

During the first years of the republic, the government invested a large amount of resources into fine arts; such as museums, theatres, opera houses and architecture

AYDIN – DİDİM – APOLLON TEMPLE

AYDIN - KUŞADASI

AĞRI – İSHAK PAŞA PALACE

Diverse historical factors play important roles in defining the modern Turkish identity. Turkish culture is a product of efforts to be a "modern" Western state, while maintaining traditional religious and historical values.

ISPARTA – YALVAÇ - PSIDIA

As Turkey successfully transformed from the religion-based former Ottoman Empire into a modern nation-state with a very strong separation of state and religion, an increase in the methods of artistic expression followed

İSTANBUL – SÜLEYMANİYE MOSQUE

İSTANBUL -SİRKECİ

İSTANBUL - BOSPHORUS

İSTANBUL – KIZ KULESİ

İSTANBUL – BOSPHORUS

İZMİR – ÇEŞME -ŞİFNE

İZMİR – EFES ANTIQUE CITY

İZMİR – EFES – HADRİAN TEMPLE

MARDİN - HASANKEYF

MARDİN - HASANKEYF

NEVŞEHİR - GÖREME

NEVŞEHİR - GÖREME

NEVŞEHİR - KAPADOKYA

ŞANLIURFA – FISH LAKE

VAN CAT