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32 unusual facts about Turkey


Ali Haydar Saltık

He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1981 - 1983) and then Commander of the Turkish Army (1983 - 1985).

Anadol

Anadol was Turkey's first domestic mass-production passenger vehicle, and the second Turkish car after the ill-fated Devrim sedan of 1961.

Anadolu Agency

The history of the Anadolu Agency (AA) is almost identical to that of the Republic of Turkey.

It also struggled against submissive attitude of some foreign and Turkish newspapers in Istanbul.

The number of photographs at Anadolu Agency's digital archives has reached nearly 1.5 million as the biggest digital photo archive in Turkey.

AA is the first news agency in Turkey to employ a photojournalist holding a paragliding license and it is also the first that went 630 meters down below the surface in a coal mine in Zonguldak, Turkey, for photographing.

Asaf Ataseven

Asaf Ataseven (born 1932, died 2003) was a Turkish doctor who served as chief physician at Gureba Hospital in Istanbul.

Avea

AveA (Aria and Aycell, AandA), the sole GSM 1800 mobile operator of Turkey, was founded in 2004 and has reached a nationwide customer base of 12.8 million as of the end of 2011.

Bekir Sami Kunduh

He was present at the last term of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire as Amasya deputy and after the dissolution he went to Ankara and joined the newly founded Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

Dalassenos

The family's name derives from their ancestral home, the city of Dalassa, modern Talas in eastern Turkey.

Eastern Anatolia Development Programme

The Eastern Anatolia Development Programme is an integrative development programme financed by the European Structural Funds for the east of Turkey.

Energy in Turkey

Hydroelectricity in Turkey is the largest renewable source of electricity however solar power looks likely to increase rapidly.

Erebuni Fortress

Van as a root is also present in numerous other placenames in historical Armenia, including the city Van, Lake Sevan, and Nakhichevan, so it is probable that the van in Yerevan is another direct translation of the root.

Argishti left a similar inscription at the Urartian capital of Tushpa (current-day Van) as well, stating that he brought 6,600 prisoners of war from Khate and Tsupani to populate his new city.

Evbazar

com is an internet company created to provide a Multi Listing Real Estate service to Turkey.

Foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey

Therefore, unlike many other European countries where most of the land area is privately owned, much of the land in Turkey is still held by the state.

The particular case of Hatay put apart, as of 1 June 2006, Antalya Province was in the lead in the number of foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey with 5566 lots sold, provinces of Aydın (3998), Muğla (3035), İstanbul (1463) and İzmir (722) occupying the following places.

Füreya Koral

She had 32 expositions in several countries, including those in galleries such as Salon D'Octobre in Paris, Museum of Modern Arts in Ciudad de Mexico, Napstkovo Muzeum in Prague, Smitshonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and as well as various art galleries in Turkey.

Galatasaray Mobile

Its competitors, Turkcell and Vodafone Turkey, have both been founded in 1994 and use the GSM 900 frequency range while Avea uses the GSM 1800 range.

Hâlit Ziyâ Konuralp

Turkish physician and professor; known as the pioneer of plastic surgery in Turkey.

İsmail Bilen

İsmail Bilen (1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician.

He was elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey in 1974.

İsmail Rüştü Aksal

İsmail Rüştü Aksal was a civil servant and politician in Turkey.

In the 18th government of Turkey (16 January 1949 – 22 May 1950) he served as the Minister of Finance.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

Lernanist

It is home to the descendants of Armenian settlers from Van who survived the Armenian Genocide.

Olba

Olba, a Roman Catholic see in the former Roman province of Isauria, in present Turkey

Peace at Home, Peace in the World

In Turkish, "Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh" was first pronounced by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 20 April 1931 to the public and later accepted as the policy of the Republic of Turkey in foreign relations.

Scouting and Guiding in Armenia

The first Armenian Scouting groups were organized in 1910 in orphanages in Van, present day Turkey.

Tourkia

Turkey, a country in southeastern Europe and western Asia

Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası

Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası (TYS - Turkish Writers' Union) is a trade union for writers in Turkey.

Uzman Konut TV Limited Coop

Uzman Konut TV was established in November 2010 on the facts of the promising growth of real estate sector in Turkey and now it is one of the leading local real estate agency.


2010 Men's European Volleyball League

In the final four tournament, the semi-final matches featured Portugal and Spain defeating Romania (3–2) and Turkey (3–0), respectively, to produce a rematch of the 2007 final.

Akarca

Akarca, Kozan, a village in Kozan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Akdoğan

Akdoğan, Kastamonu, a village in the district of Kastamonu, Kastamonu Province, Turkey

Artificial induction of immunity

This was practiced in ancient times in China and India, and imported into Europe, via Turkey, around 1720 by Lady Montagu and perhaps others.

At Va'Ani

The song was performed twelfth on the night (following Belgium's Ann Christy with "Gelukkig zijn" and preceding Turkey's Semiha Yanki with "Seninle Bir Dakika").

Azra Akın

Thus, she represented Turkey in the Miss World beauty pageant which was held on December 7, 2002 at Alexandra Palace, London, which she also won.

Beldibi

Beldibi, Konyaaltı, a village in the district of Kemer, Antalya Province, Turkey

Beldibi, Alanya, a village in the district of Alanya, Antalya Province, Turkey

Buffalo Turkey Trot

The race is partially a serious competition and partially a fun run; participants in the Turkey Trot have been known to wear unusual costumes (comparable to those used by the contestants in the game show Let's Make a Deal) such as turkey suits, hockey uniforms with mullets, whole canoes, Chewbacca outfits, or formal wedding wear while racing.

Çamlıbel

Çamlıbel, Silifke, a village in Silifke district of Mersin Province, Turkey

Çiçekli

Çiçekli, Tarsus, a village in Tarsus district of Mersin Province, Turkey

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

Erenköy

Erenköy, Murgul, a village in the district of Murgul, Artvin Province, Turkey

Formula-G

The last race was done in Ankara, Turkey on 2007.The first and second positions in this year was held by the teams of Istanbul Technical University.

Görece

Görece is a village in the Menderes district of Izmir Province, Turkey.

Gülhan Şen

Şen graduated from Muhsin Adil Binal Ilkogretim Okulu (secondary school) and Kabatas Erkek Lisesi (high school) in Turkey, and studied radio and television at Istanbul University Communication Faculty.

Gündüz Tekin Onay

There were several sports persons at his funeral such as UEFA vice presicent Şenes Erzik, former TFF president Haluk Ulusoy, Turkey manager Fatih Terim, Sivasspor chairman Mecnun Otyakmaz, and national footballer Emre Belözoğlu.

Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan

Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was a professor of mathematics, geography, and calligraphy at the Robert College of Istanbul, known for designing the signature of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey.

HSC Speedrunner IV

Originally it was planned that she would be set in traffic between Brindisi, Italy and Çeşme, Turkey.

IEL

Istanbul High School, Istanbul (Erkek) Lisesi, a highschool in Istanbul, Turkey

İhlas News Agency

IHA has 78 Data link Stations in Turkey, all of which are equipped with Betacam SP/SX and digital editing facilities, A/B Roll as well as post production suits.

John Burgon

Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English merchant trading in Turkey who was also a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities department of the British Museum.

Karaali

Karaali, Amasya, a village in the district of Amasya, Amasya Province, Turkey

Karaurgan

Karaurgan is a flag stop railway station near the village of Karaurgan in the Kars Province of Turkey.

Kibyra

Kibyra (sometimes also spelled as Cibyra) is an ancient city and an archaeological site in south-west Turkey, near the modern town of Gölhisar, in Burdur Province.

Kurt Krenn

Krenn argued against Turkey's entrance into the European Union, warning against the 'islamisation' of Europe and calling Islam a "very aggressive kind of religion" that will not easily allow for the political unity with the Christian faith.

Latvia national under-17 football team

The following players have been called up for the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship matches against Northern Ireland, Turkey and Luxembourg in Belfast and Dungannon in November 2013.

Memić

Gizem Memiç, Turkish beauty pageant contestant from Gaziantep who won Miss Turkey 2010

Mirsad Türkcan

His sister Emina Jahović (known as Emina Sandal in Turkey) is a famous pop singer in southeastern Europe and the wife of a famous Turkish singer, Mustafa Sandal.

Mount Nif

But the name "Mount Nif", deriving from "Nymphaion", the name of the region during the Byzantine period when it was an important and imperial center especially at the time of the Nicaean Empire, is the more common appellation in Turkey as well.

Muhammed al-Ahari

During September 2005 he attended the First Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey, where he presented a paper on links between Freemasonry and the Bektashi community.

Mustafabeyli

Mustafabeyli, Adana, a town in Ceyhan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Northern Tier

During the Cold War, in England and the U.S., it refers to the Four Middle Eastern members of the Central Treaty Organization: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.

Nurhan Çınar

She played in the Turkey U18 girls' national team, and won the bronze medal at the 2011 EuroHockey U18 Girls' Championship III held in Smolevichi, Minsk, Belarus.

OFK Grbalj

The second round draw was not so favorable for the Montenegrins, facing them off against an ambitious Sivasspor of Turkey, yet it was in these two games that the motivated Grbalj side produced the most breathtaking displays of football.

Once a week

The Once a Week Show (2007–2008), an Irish television series presented by Dustin the Turkey

Orfeon Records

The first record company in Turkey, it was founded by the Blumenthal Family in 1912.

Pervin Buldan

Pervin Buldan ( 6 November 1967, Hakkâri Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin.

Recep Altepe

Recep Altepe, (born 1959, Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and the current mayor of Bursa.

Robert John Braidwood

The expedition to the Amuq Plain (in the state of Hatay, Turkey) was one of the first scientific archaeological surveys, involving the rigorous dating of artifacts through careful mapping and record-keeping.

Senir

Senir, Gündoğmuş, a village in the district of Gündoğmuş, Antalya Province, Turkey

Shana Cox

Competing in her first major competition for Great Britain, Cox won a gold medal in the women's 4x400 metres relay at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a team that also included Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu and Perri Shakes-Drayton.

SS Taroona

Hellas remained laid-up at Elefsina bay until May 1989 when she was towed out of the bay to Aliağa in Turkey and scrapped.

TAI/AgustaWestland T129

On 17 August 2011, Turkish Aerospace Industries announced the first successful flight of the T129 prototype "P6", that was produced at its facilities in Ankara, Turkey.

Turkish Grand Prix

As part of the podium ceremony after the 2006 race, the winner's trophy was presented by Mehmet Ali Talat, who was introduced to television viewers via the captions as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state which is recognised only by Turkey.

Turunçlu

Turunçlu, Kozan, a village in Kozan district of Adana Province, Turkey

Vyacheslav Molotov

In January 1941, the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden visited Turkey in an attempt to get the Turks to enter the war on the Allies' side.

Wilhelm Röpke

Röpke's opposition to the German Nazi regime led him (with his family) in 1933 to emigrate to Istanbul, Turkey, where he taught until 1937, before accepting a position at the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where he lived until his death, in 1966.

Yekta Uzunoglu

Yekta alleges that the police charges against him were part of a conspiracy orchestrated by the Turkish government under Tansu Çiller and former communists including foreign minister Jaromin Johanes who now lives in Turkey.