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SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING

15-20 APRIL 2015, SILISTRA

TURKEY - FACTS

Location: Southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia. Turkey is bordered by eight

countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

Area: 783,562 square kilometers

Official name: Republic of Turkey

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Capital: Ankara

Official language: Turkish

Currency: Turkish lira

NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES OF TURKEY

TURKEY - FACTS

Population: Just over 80 million people live in Turkey (80,694,485) as of July 2013.Larger cities: Istanbul, İzmir, Bursa, AnkaraClimate: Mild, hot, dry summers; wet wintersReligions: Islam (mostly Sunni) 99.8%, other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews). Turkey is a secular country, that means religion and state are strictly separated.

TURKEY - FACTS

Geography: Turkey is a large peninsula that bridges the continents of Europe and Asia. Turkey is surrounded on three sides by the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Aegean Sea. Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, is partly in Europe and partly in Asia.

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Regions: The 1st Geography Congress, held in Ankara City in 1941, divided Turkey into seven regions after long discussions and work.

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History: Turkey has only existed in today’s form since 1923. Until then, Turkey was not Turkey but a part of the Ottoman Empire. When the Ottoman Empire fell apart towards the end of the 20th century the foreign countries occupied parts of today’s Turkey. This led to the Turkish War of Independence, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. On 29 October 1923, Atatürk proclaimed the Republic of Turkey in today’s form and with today’s borders.

TURKEY - FACTS

Politics:

• Turkey is a parliamentary democracy with a multiparty system.

• President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2014)

• Prime Minister: Ahmet Davutoğlu (2014)

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Sports: The most popular sports in Turkey are oil wrestling, football,

basketball and voleyball. Eating habits: •A traditional Turkish breakfast consists of çay (black tea), fresh bread,

cheese called «Beyaz peynir», black olives, butter, jam or honey, a

boiled egg and domatoes and cucumbers...•A traditional dinner starts always with soup.•Vegetables are widely enjoyed by the Turks.

TURKEY - FACTS

Popular street food: •Kebap: Kebap actually means small pieces of broiled or roasted meat — generally cow, sheep or chicken. •Döner: this tightly packed meat roasted on a large vertical spit is the basis for fast-food snacks (or even full meals) such as Pilav Üstü Döner, İskedender and Dürüm.• Lahmacun: a Turkish-style pizza.•Balık&ekmek: literaly translated ‘fish&bread’.

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• Simit: a crisp, ring-shaped, savory roll covered with sesame.• Kumpir: baked potato with a myriad of toppings like kaşar cheese, sausages, corn, mayonnaise salad, peas and carrots.• Pilav (turkish rice) with chickpeas.• Kokoreç: spiced and skewered sheep’s intestines.• Midye dolma: mussels on the half shell, mixed with spicy rice.

TURKEY - ISTANBUL

Although Ankara is the capital of modern day Turkey, Istanbul has been the capital of three great empires: the Eastern Roman, the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires. The traces of these empires can still be seen today in Istanbul where magnificent mosques and churches stand side by side. “Ιstanbul” derives from the Greek phrase “εις την Πόλιν” meaning “in the city”.

TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM

The Turkish National Education system is divided into two main sections as: 1.Formal education2.Non- formal education

Formal education includes: pre-primary education, primary school education, lower secondary school education, upper secondary (high) school education and higher education institutions (universities).

TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM

Pre-primary education is optional.Primary (1st to 4th grades) and lower secondary education (5th to 8th grades) are compulsory and free of charge in public schools. When the students finish the secondary school, they get their document of complement and can continue their education.

TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM

High school education (9th to 12th grade) covers general, Anatolian,

science and vocational high schools.High school education is also compulsory.When they finish high school students get their high school diplomas.Students have to take two general exams shortly called YGS and LYS

to enroll a university.Every year around two million students attend these exams and

630,000 students get a chance to enroll any faculty according to their

points.

TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM

University education is mostly four years. There are 196 universities in Turkey (123 state universities and 73 foundation universities). Students apply universities with their YGS and LYS exam grades. Non-formal education is offered by a network of training centers

that are supervised by the Ministry of National Education (MEB). There is also the Distance Higher Education which is offered at the

Open Education Faculty of Anadolu University.

TRAVELLING WORDSERASMUS+ PROJECT

SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING

15-20 APRIL 2015, SILISTRA

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