1. TURKEY

2. Where is Turkey?

3. Turkey
Land Border Total: 2,648 km & Coast Line Total: 7,200 km
Border countries: Armenia 268 km, Azerbaijan 9 km, Bulgaria 240
km, Georgia 252 km, Greece 206 km, Iran 499 km, Iraq 352 km,
Syria 822 km
 Population 80 Million (17th in the
world)
 Largest City Istanbul (13.6 million)
 Economy: $1 Trillion (17th in the
world)
 Democracy, Secular, Republic
 Founded in 1923
 99% Islamic – 1% Christian &
Jewish

4. How Big is Turkey?
Turkey 303,000 sq ft > Texas 268,000 sq ft
Texas
37th Biggest Country by size

5. East & West

6. People

7. People

8. Traditional Clothes

9. Traditional Clothes

10. Food

11. Beaches

12. Lands

13. & More

14. Turkey is a very old land
Pot Belly Hill BC 9500 (11,500 yrs ago)
Hattians ca. 2500-ca. 2000 BC Alexander the Great 334-ca. 301 BC
Akkadian Empire ca. 2400-ca. 2150 BC Seleucid Empire ca. 305-64 BC
Assyrian trading colonies ca. 1950-1750 BC Kingdom of Pontus ca. 302-64 BC
Hittites ca. 1680 BC-1220 BC Attalids of Pergamon 282-129 BCE
Ionian Collusion ca. 1300 BC-700 BC Kingdom of Armenia 190 BC-428
Neo-Hittite Kingdoms ca. 1200-800 BC The Roman Republic 133-27 BC
Phrygian Kingdom ca. 1200 BC-700 BC The Roman Empire 27 BC-330 AD
Troy I-VIII ca. 3000 BC-700 BC The Byzantine Empire 330-1453
Lydian Kingdom ca. 685-547 BC Ottoman Empire 1299-1922
Achaemenid Persia ca. 559-331 BC The Republic of Turkey 1922-present

15. Pot Belly Hill (BC 10,000)
 Oldest Temple & Monument
 Predates Wheel and Pottery
 2,000 Year Older than Second (Catalhoyuk also
in Turkey)

16. Different Civilizations

17. Byzantine Empire (300-1453)

18. Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)

19. First Shopping Mall
 Kapalicarsi: “Covered Bazaar” 61 Streets, 4,000 Stores
(250,000-400,000 Visitors a day)
 Started to build 1455, ended 1730

20. First Money
 Money “Coin” Invented in Turkey – Lydians BC 700

21. First Pastrami
 Pastrami originates from Turkish Nomads
 Turkish: pastırma, Romanian: pastramă, Yiddish: ‫ּפַאסטרָאמע‬pastróme
 The horseback saddles, the meat was placed between the saddle and the horse
and pressed by the weight of the riders, “pressing” the meat while it cured.

22. First Coffee Shop
 Coffee Shop originated in Turkey (1555 first one in Istanbul) (Ethiopia 1500s)
 1600s came in France, thanks to the Ottoman Ambassador to Paris

23. Only City on Two Continents
 Istanbul (Settled since BC 5000)
 AD 350 – 300,000 , AD 500 – 500,000
 1600 – 700,000

25. Oldest Standing Church
 St. Paul was born in Southeast of Turkey, AD 5 – 67
 Oldest standing Church in the world, in a cave in Turkey
 Cave Church of St. Peter, AD 40. Still active

26. Hagia Sophia
 Largest Dome (Building) for 1000 Years (Built 532-537 AD)
until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520
 Changed the history of architecture
 Mosques today take their shape from Hagia Sophia
 Iconoclastic Wars (700 and 800 twice)

27. Topkapi Palace
 Royal residence for 400 years (1465-1856)
 Home to 4,000 people , full of treasures

28. Is Turkey from Turkey?
 First Settlers identified Wild Turkey as Guinea Fowl they knew
 They knew Guinea Fowl as Turkey Fowl since it came through Turkey
 In Turkey/Catalan/Hebrew (Indian), In Malaysia (Dutch), In Greece (French), In Egypt (Greek Bird)

29.  Yogurt comes from Turkey
 It is 4000 – 5500 years old
 High in protein and calcium
 Came to the US in 1920
 Produced by “ Good” bacteria
 The word “yoğmak ‘ to be curdled or
coagulated; to thicken‘
 How milk was first cultured into yogurt
remains a mystery
Invention of Yogurt
L. Bulgarius

30.  We all have bacteria (Stomach and intestines
especially)
 When you eat yogurt, it encourages the good
types of bacteria to multiply in our body.
 Good and friendly bacteria also protect our
system against harmful microorganisms which
cause tummy aches and infection..
Good Bacteria in Yogurt

31.  People did not germs
 Few intuitive observant developed
variolation
 Small pox, made a cut, find out lifelong
immunity
 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an
English aristocrat who married a
diplomat to Istanbul
 Lost brother to small pox, and lost her
own beauty. Got her kids variolated
 Brought to Royal Family, and became
popular in Europe (1718)
 1790 Dr. Edward Jenner developed
safer method vaccination
The Idea of Vaccines

32.  Ambassador to Ottoman Empire in 1554
 1630s the Dutch Market trading tulips in stock market
 Some flowers changed hands 10 times a day
 By 1635, a sale of 40 bulbs for 100,000 florins (also
known as Dutch guilders) was recorded. By way of
comparison, a ton of butter cost around 100 florins, a
skilled laborer might earn 150 florins a year
 Today’s Money one bulb can be
$300,000
 1637 ended
Tulip Mania in Europe

33. Ataturk: George Washington of Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938)
• Lead the independence war against France/Greece/Britain/Italy
• Established democracy
• Be the first president and did not want o become king

35. April 23- International Children’s
Day

36. Why Children’s Day?
Turkey become a democracy on
April 23, 1920 while fighting an
Indepence war

37. What happens on Children’s Day?
 celebrate all over the nation
 dance
 wear special clothes
 draw pictures
 Kids take over offices from adults

38. Video Links
Turkey Promotion Video 2011
Flying Over Istanbul Video
Discovery Channel Long Documentary
Turkey Tourism Clip
Turkey Photos With Slide Show
Turkey Tanitim Filmi