1. TÜRK İ YE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

2. ATATURK FOUNDED THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY IN 1923 MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK (1881-1938)

3. He reconstructed all the educational, juridical and political base of Turkey. He made many reforms and tried Turkey to integrate the Europe and world.

4. TURKEY IS A PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

5. Islam is the dominant religion of Turkey There are about 120,000 Christians, including an estimated 80,000 Oriental Orthodox,35,000 Roman Catholics, 5,000 Greek Orthodox and smaller numbers of Protestants, and about 26,000 people who are Jewish Turkey is a secular state with no official religion

6. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: TURKISH

7. The other big cities are : İ zmir Bursa Adana Konya Antalya CAPITAL CITY: ANKARA THE MOST CROWDED CITY: ISTANBUL

8. BULGARIA- GREECE-GEORGIA-ARMENIA- AZERBAIJAN-IRAN-IRAQ-SYRIA Turkey is bordered by eight countries Turkey is bordered by eight countries:

9. MEDITERRANEAN SEA, AEGEAN SEA, BLACK SEA THE SEA OF MARMARA THE FOUR SEAS

10. 74,724,269 POPULATION

11. TURKEY ABOLISHED POLYGAMY IN 1926 TURKEY DOES NOT HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TURKEY ACCEPTED LATIN ALPHABET IN 1928

12. TURKISH LIRA CURRENCY

13. NOW TURKEY IS A CANDIDATE COUNTRY IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF EUROPEAN UNION

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