Travel Turkey : Modern
Turkey is country of 780,576 square kilometres,somewhat
larger than the state of Texas or France and Great Britain
combined. It is bordered by the Mediterranean, Aegean, Black
Seas, by Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Nahcivan, Iran,
Iraq and Syria about three percent of country in Europe.
South and east Dardanelles, The Sea of Marmara and Bosphoruos
stretches the peninsula known as Asia Minor or Anatolia.
Eight thousand two hundred ten kilometres of its border are
shores lined with fertile plains:these rise quickly to high,
dry, central plataue where nineteen mountains incluiding Mt
Ararat,over 3500 meters high.The country has three main
temparete climates: Mediterranean in the south, Black Sea in
the north and steppe throughout most of Anatolia.There are
four naturel lakes: Van, Tuz, Beysehir, Egirdir. Two large
man - made lakes on Euphrates River back up behind the Keban
and Ataturk dams. A number of its rivers well known in
antiquity Euphrates, Tigris, Halys, Araxes, Sangarius,
Meander and Pyramus.
The
capital of Turkey Ankara located in Central Anatolia.In 1950
the population is numbered about 20 million: by the turn of
century it is estimated that the population will be 70
million. More than fifty percent of the lobar force is
engaged in agriculture. The main cash crops include tobacco
(Turkey is the world's sixth largest producer) cereals,
cotton, olive oil, mohair, wool, silk, figs, raisins, nuts,
fruits, opium, gum, and sugar. Antimony, borate, copper and
chrome are minded in sufficient quantities to be exported.In
recent years a number of industries have become important in
the national economy. These include food and beverages,
clothing and cloth manufacture, chemicals, ceramics and motor
vehicles.