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TURKEY

INTRODUCING OUR COUNTRY

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

The Mediterranean Sea is to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.

Turkey's location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia makes it a country of significant geostrategic importance.

TURKEY IS A TOURIST ATTRACTION WITH ITS

BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND HISTROCAL PLACES

IT IS FAMOUS FOR ITS GREEN

Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) was the first Presidentof Turkey until his death in 1938. He is known for being a leader of Turkey who freed the country from being controlled by other countries, and later for starting changes that made Turkey more modern and similar to Western civilization, mainly Europe and the United States.

Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (1609-1640), an inhabitant of Istanbul in the 17th century Ottoman Empire is credited with the first appropriate flight with artificial wings in the history of aviation. The event took place in the year 1638 during the tenure of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen took off from the 183-foot tall Galata Tower near Bosporus and landed successfully at Uskudar, on the other side.This feat was 200 years ahead of its time. Evliya Celebi, historian and chronicler and an eyewitness, recorded vividly in his Seyahatname (a book of travel), the jubilation that followed. Sultan Murad IV was inordinately pleased. Hezarfen was awarded a thousand gold pieces.

Mimar Sinan was the frontrunner among the architects of the Ottoman Era. He was the Chief Architect to many a Sultan. His numerous creations that dot the Turkey skyline still evoke wonder and appreciation and many of the architectural trends he had set are followed till date.

Nazim Hikmet or NazimHikmet Ran (1902-1963) is the most widely recognized among all Turkish poets and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century and his works have been translated into several languages.

Come!Come whoever you are.Doesn`t matter if you are an unbeliever.Doesn`t matter if you have fallen a thousand times.Come!Come whoever you are. For this is not the door of hopelessness.Come,Just as you are!

Rumi`s vibrant call of love still resonates. It touches the universe with the same fervor as it did seven hundred years ago. Passionate and spiritual, theologian and mystic, Rumisought God everywhere and in everybody. He has become one in his verses.

MEVLANA CELALETTİN RUMİ

SUMELA MONASTRY

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