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I wish to thank Melanie, Ozkan, and Senem for your contributions in this thread! I felt it to be very informative and quite interesting!!!!

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Turkey is known as the Cradle of Civilization. In fact, many civilizations were already here as far as 9000 B.C.
Turkey borders three major seas : the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
Turkey was known as Asia Minor; the Asian side of Turkey is known as Anatolia
Turkey is where Alexander the Great cut the intricate Gordian Knot; literally a phrase used for shortcut to Solving Difficult Problems
Turkey is the birthplace of Kind Midas, who turned everyting into gold
Turkey was the center of two of the major empires in history : the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires
Turkey provides 70% of the world's hazelnuts : probably the nut in your chocolate bar was grown in Turkey.
Turkey has a 650-year old covered shopping mall of 64 streets, 3500 shops, 22 entrances and 25000 workers : the famous Grand Bazaar
Turkey is the birthplace of St. Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus.
Turkey is the origin of the names of Paris, Philadelphia and Europe.
Turkey is where Noah's Ark landed : at Mount Agri (Ararat), Eastern Turkey.
Turkey is the location for two of the Seven Wonders of the World : the Temple of Artemis and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
Turkey has historical relics pertaining to three of the world's major religions : Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Turkey has the most valuable silk carpet in the world in the Mevlana Museum (Konya) : 144 knots per sq. Cm - 13th century
Turkey is said to have provided the water for the Garden of Eden from its 2 great rivers : the Euphrates and the Tigris.
Turkey is the birthplace of St. Paul (Tarsus).
Turkey is uniquely in two continents : Europe and Asya
Turkey gave the English language many words such as turquoise, parchment, yogurt, meander, angora..
Turkey is the location of the city of Troy in the west of the country, where the Trojan War was fought
Turkey had the world's first female Supreme court Judge and gave women the right to vote in 1934
Turkey is the location of the first known beauty contest, judged by paris, with Aphrodite, Hera and Athena as leading participants
Turkey has a city, Mardin, which is one of the few places where you can hear the native language of Jesus Christ - Aramaic. The final home of Virgin Mary, to which she traveled with St. John, is located nearby.
Turkey was producing wine as early as 4000BC.
Turkey has the first temple built ever (Urfa - between 9000 and 8500BC) and the first church built ever (St Peter's in Antioch)
Turkey first introduced tulips to Holland and today still supllies tulips to the world
Turkey reputedly has one of the world's 3 greatest cuisines
Turkey has more ancient sites than any other country
Turkey was the first to produce and use coins 2700 years ago
Turkey is the location of the Seven Churches of Revelation
Turkey is one of the safest countries in the world according to comparative statistics.

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Turkish women had the rigth to chosen to the parliament before Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark

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did I misunderstood something?

or is Tyler trying to change the topic? 

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A-HA! thanks Vicki

Well well... Tyler... tell us about the popularity of tango in Turkey...

For a start, we have tango music in Turkish but unfortunately most of them are old...

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Schlaftablette,

Nice point about the tulips in fact the ottoman empire passed through a period called "Tulip period" in which most of the people dealt with growing tulips and art instead of dealing with "serious" issues.

I don't know about the cherries, and I should have... I am a biologist you know... need to study more I guess

Thank you so much for input...

Tyler... Alanya is nice but I prefer Antalya's downtown... We have a house there, maybe that's why it's much cheaper for me

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not much really Senem, room+breakfast+dinner just 20USD, beer 2USD in Olympos...there are more restaurants than people in kalkan but the main dishes starts from 20USD....

i always think Alanya is the cheapest place in Turkey and the place that you can enjoy yourself  a lot since i spent all my holidays of last decade....next month i will check it again 

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really?

I heard that olympos is not as cheap as before... You should know something about it too...

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Thank you! 

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Here are some more facts about Turkey:

Turkey is the only secular Muslim country among all the Muslim countries in the world.

In 1923 the democratic Republic of Turkey was established under the leadership of Kemal Atatürk.
 

Turkey is a young country in more ways than one: over two-thirds of the Turkish population is under age thirty.
Turkey is physically one of the highest countries in the world, the average height is 6,000 feet.

Turkey is one of the few agriculturally self-sufficient countries in the world.

More than two-thirds of Turkey's borders are coastline, these stretch for fully 6,000 km (3,730 miles) along the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Turkey is one of the riches countries in species of flowers due to its varied landscape and climate.  There are approximately 9,000 species of which 3,000 are native.  In Europe there are only 11,500 species.

Turkish History

The Turkish people trace their ethnic origins to a group of Ural-Altaic tribes who were located in the 2nd c. BC in what is today Mongolia.  

Esperanto is based on the structure of the Turkish language.

The majority of Turks were converted to Islam in the 9th c. AD. 

The Ottoman Navy brought the Jewish people who were expelled from Spain to safety in the Ottoman lands in 1492.

Tulips are not native to Holland.  They were actually introduced from Anatolia in the 16th c.

Over one hundred Christian churches of many different sects are found in the city of Istanbul. 

Ancient History in Turkey

The Greek Orthodox church is still located in Istanbul.

The Garden of Eden was said to be watered by a river which separated into four streams as it left the garden.   Two of them, the Tigris and the Euphrates, are found in the  mountains of eastern Turkey.

Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in Turkey, is believed to be the place where Noah's Ark landed.

The Seven Churches of the Apocalypse were all located in Anatolia -  Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

St. Nicholas - today's Santa Claus, was born in Patara (next to Kalkan) and lived as the bishop of Myra in Demre (also near Kalkan).  

Followers of Jesus were first called "Christians" in today's Antakya.

"Anatolia" means "east" in Greek.  In the Turkish language it means "the land full of mothers".

The oldest known shipwreck was excavated near Kaş (a coastal town next to Kalkan).

King Midas, son of Gordius, the last and the most famous of the Phrygian kings, ruled over the whole of Asia Minor in the 6th century BC.

Many city names originated in Anatolia such as Philadelphia, Paris, Antioch, Troy and the continental name "Europe".

Alexander the Great embarked on a campaign against the Persians in 334 BC crossing the Dardanelles, occupying Gordium (this is where the fabled cutting of the Gordian knot took place) and defeating Darius the Third.

Two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World stood in Anatolia -  the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.  

The words "Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)" were said by Julius Caesar when he went to Anatolia in 47 BC.

The Lycian federal system of government with proportional representation was used as a model by the authors of the United States constitution.

More info: http://www.kalkanturkey.com/turkey-facts.htm

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no pics ...    I have to check it out...

Have a brilliant time!!! and come back soon

no,no, joking... take your time...

Senem 

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...cant paste any pics here.

i will be on vacation till 18th....you guys take care and go on thanking each other

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Did you know...

... that motifs on Turkish carpets and rugs have meanings and the woman who weaves the carpet actually tells something.

for more info: http://www.about-turkey.com/carpet/language.htm

You're welcome Foxy

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come on vicki, tell me one example that UN took care of it...Bosnia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Liberia,or Namibia? how can you expect them to be neutral when 68% of its budget is paid by US? do turkey and greece need a big brother to solve problems...

was Galileo Galilei wrong when his thoughts althought everyone believed he is crazy?

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Did you know...  

that there are 132 mammal,

450 bird,

106 reptile,

21 amphibian,

and 511 fish (freshwater and sea)

species in Turkey...

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