F.A.Q's About Turkey

- The Capital city of Turkey is Ankara but Istanbul is the biggest city of the country with its 12 million population. 

- Population in Turkey is about Seventy Million.

- The only city in the world which is located on two continents - Asia and Europe- is Istanbul.

- 6% of the total land of Turkey is located in Europe, and the rest in Asia.

- Turkey is known as the Cradle of Civilization - in fact, many civilizations have been here since before 9000 BC.


- Turkey has been a member of NATO since 1952, right after the Korean War.

- Witnessed the first known Human Rights Declaration, in 1463, 485 years before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

- Turkey is the birth place of King Midas, who turned everything into gold.

- Turkey has 70% of its population under 35.

- Turkeyhas 650 years old covered shopping mall of 64 streets, about 3500 shops, 22 entrances, and 25.000 workers, the famous Grand Bazaar.

- Turkey is the birthplace and home of St. Nicholas - known as Santa Claus.

- Turkey is the birthplace and home of St. Paul of Tarsus. 

- Turkey is the origin of the names of Paris , Philadelphia and Europe.

- The Turkish Republic was found in 1923 by one of the greatest leaders in History, Mustafa Kemal ATATURK.

- Turkey is where Noah's Ark landed - at Mount Agri (Ararat) - Eastern Turkey.

- Turkey witnessed the first recorded international treaty between Hittites and Egyptians in 1284 BC.

- Turkey hosts two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - The Temple of Artemis and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

- Turkey used its navy to rescue the Jewish people from persecution in Spain in 1492.

- Turkey hosts city of Troy in the west of the country, where you can see the wooden horse from the book of Homer.

- Turkey is the birth place of Homer (c. 750 BC. ) - writer of two epic poems 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey'.

- Turkey became a member of UN since 1945.

- Turkey first introduced tulips to Holland, and today still supplies tulips to the world.

- Turkey is the location of the Seven Churches of Revelation.

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