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Cheap Holidays in Turkey!
Turkey is a fabulous destination for a holiday
for many reasons, guaranteed sunshine, friendly
and beautiful resorts and no Euro currency
making your pound go much further are just
a few of them. Cheap holidays to Turkey are
available throughout the UK.
Turkey is a unique destination, as it sits
on two continents, Europe and Asia, across
the narrow straits of the Bosporus and the
Dardanelles. The European section of Turkey,
borders Bulgria and Greece, with Istanbul
being the only country in the world to be
on two continents.
The long coastlines are washed by the Black
Sea to the north and the more popular coastline
on the West is lapped by the Aegean Sea,
with the Mediterranean to the South.
Turkey Fact File
Population: 70,413,958 (July 2006 est.)
Size of Country: 770,760 sq km
Capital City: Ankara
Time Zone: GMT+2
Currency: Turkish LiraLocation: South-western Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering
the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria.Climate: hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters;
harsher in interiorLanguage: Turkish
Telephone Country Code: 90
Electricity: 220 volts
National Holidays:19 May Commemoration of Atatürk.30 Aug Victory DayReligion: Muslim 99.8%, 0.2% (mainly christian and
Jews)
   
Interesting Facts about Turkey
* Turkey is officially known as the ‘Republic
of Turkey’.
* The Republic of Turkey was founded on October 29, 1923, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
*Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe
(1949), NATO (1952), OECD (1961), OSCE (1973)
and the G20 industrial nations (1999).
*Turkey became an associate member of European
Union 1963 and reached a customs union agreement
in 1995.
*The capital of Turkey is Ankara, while its
largest city is Istanbul.
*The monetary unit of Turkey is New Turkish
lira.
*The part of Turkey in Europe is called ‘Thrace’,
while the part in Asia is called ‘Anatolia’.
*The highest peak in Turkey is Mount Agri
(5,166 m). It is also said to be the place
where Noah's Ark came to rest.
*The largest lake in Turkey is Lake Van.*
Anatolia, the part of Turkey that is in Asia,
was settled by Ionians (Greeks from Attica).
It houses the Classical Greek Ionic column.
*The Temple of Artemis (Diana), one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was in
Ephesus.
*The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in southwestern
Turkey, was one of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World.
*St Paul (Saul) was born in Tarsus, situated
to the east of Mersin.
*Istanbul, initially Constantinople, was
the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the
Ottoman Empire.
*St. Peter’s Church, situated in Antioch
(Antakya) - Turkey, is the first church built
by man.
*St. Nicholas was born in Demre, on the Mediterranean
coast of Turkey.
*It were the Turks who introduced coffee
to Europe.
*Istanbul is the only city in the world that
is spread over two continents.
*Cherry was first introduced to Europe from
Giresun (Northern Turkey).
*All the ‘Seven Churches’ of
Apocalypse are situated in the Aegean region
of Anatolia, namely Ephesus, Smyrna (Izmir), Pergamum, Thyatira (Nazilli),
Sardis, Philadelphia (Alasehir) and Laodicea.
*The oldest known human settlement is in
Catalhoyuk, Turkey (dating back to 7th millennium BC).
*It was in ancient Anatolia that writing
was first used by people.
*The oldest tin mine in the world has been
found in Göltepe, 60 miles to the south
of Tarsus.
*Turkey is the only secular Muslim country
amongst all the Muslim countries in the world.
*Turkey is one of the few countries in the
world that is agriculturally self-sufficient.
*There are approximately 9,000 species of
flowers in Turkey, out of which 3,000 are
native.
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