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Abanoz

Abanoz, Mersin

- Geography :Abanoz at is actually a part of Çukurabanoz village of Anamur district in Mersin Province. It has no seetled population but hosts visitors during summers. It is on Toros Mountains and distance to Anamur is - Etymology and the history :...

 - Abaza rebellion

Abaza rebellion

Abaza rebellion was a rebellion in Ottoman Empire during the reigns of Mustafa I and Murat IV. The name of the rebellion refers to Abaza Mehmet , an Ottoman pasha of Abkhazian origin. Sometimes this rebellion is considered as a part of the Jelali revolts...

 - Abaza Siyavuş Pasha

Abaza Siyavuş Pasha

Siyavuş Pasha , also called Abaza Siyavuş, was a short term Ottoman grand vizier who held the post during one of the most chaotic periods of the empire.- Early years :...

 - Abbas I of Egypt

Abbas I of Egypt

Abbas I , , also known as Abbas Hilmi I Pasha Wāli of Egypt and Sudan, was a son of Tusun Pasha and grandson of Muhammad Ali, founder of the reigning dynasty of Egypt and Sudan at the time...

 - Abbas II of Egypt

Abbas II of Egypt

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan .-Early life:...

 - Abdülâziz

Abdülâziz

Abdülaziz I or Abd Al-Aziz, His Imperial Majesty was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876...

 - Abdulmecit

Abdülmecid I

Sultan Abdülmecid I, Abdul Mejid I, Abd-ul-Mejid I or Abd Al-Majid I Ghazi was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on July 2, 1839. His reign was notable for the rise of nationalist movements within the empire's territories...

 - Abdul Mejid II - Abdul Hamid I - Abdul Hamid II

Abdul Hamid II

His Imperial Majesty, The Sultan Abdülhamid II, Emperor of the Ottomans, Caliph of the Faithful was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire...

 - Abdullah Gül

Abdullah Gül

Dr. Abdullah Gül, GCB is the 11th and current President of the Republic of Turkey, serving in that office since 28 August 2007. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister from 2002-03, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003-07....

 - Abdülkadir Koçak

Abdulkadir Kocak

Abdulkadir Koçak is a Turkish national boxer competing in the light flyweight division. Koçak boxed for Beşiktaş J.K. before transferring to Tekelspor club in Istanbul....

 - Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan , Kurdish founder of the terrorist organization called Kurdistan Workers' Party in 1978.Öcalan was captured in Nairobi and extradited to the Turkish security force, and sentenced to death under Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which concerns the formation of armed gangs...

 - Abidin Dino

Abidin Dino

Abidin Dino, was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter.-Early years:Dino was born on March 23, 1913 in Istanbul into a family who loved art. He started drawing and painting at a young age influenced by his family. As a child he lived in Geneve, Switzerland and France for several years with...

 - Accession of Turkey to the European Union

Accession of Turkey to the European Union

Turkey's application to accede to the European Union was made on 14 April 1987. Turkey has been an associate member of the European Union and its predecessors since 1963...

 - Adamkayalar

Adamkayalar

- Geography :Adamkayalar is on the southerm slopes of the Toros Mountains only several kilometers north of the Kızkalesi and Mediterranean coastline at about . Distance to Kızkalesi, the coastline town is , to Silifke is and to Mersin is . Kızkalesi is on the Datça-Mersin highway. To reach...

 - Adem Dursun

Adem Dursun

Adem Dursun is a Turkish footballer who is currently a free agent. He formerly played for Kayseri Erciyesspor in the TFF First League as a central defender.-References:...

 - Adem Kılıççı

Adem Kiliçci

Adem Kılıççı is a Turkish amateur boxer in the welterweight division. At , he weighs . He is currently member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing Club in Istanbul....

 - Adana

Adana

Adana is a city in southern Turkey and a major agricultural and commercial center. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 30 kilometres inland from the Mediterranean, in south-central Anatolia...

 - Adana Conference - Adana Province

Adana Province

Adana Province is a province of Turkey located in south-central Anatolia. With a population of 2,085,225, it is the fifth most populous province in Turkey. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78% of the residents of the province...

 - Adapazarı

Adapazari

Adapazarı is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country, known as the Marmara Region. As of 2010, the city has a population of 560,876 ...

 - Adıyaman

Adiyaman

Adıyaman is city in southeastern Turkey, capital of the Adıyaman Province. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in Turkey...

 - Adıyaman Province

Adiyaman Province

Adıyaman Province is a province in south-central Turkey. The province was created in 1954 out of part of Malatya Province. Area 7,614 km². Population 590,935 , up from 513,131 in 1990. The capital is Adıyaman....

 - Adile Naşit

Adile Nasit

Adile Naşit was a Turkish actress, who is best known for being the partner of Münir Özkul in movies like Neşeli Günler and in Hababam Sınıfı...

 - Adile Sultan

Adile Sultan

HIH Princess Adile Sultana , daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and sister of the Sultans Abdulmecid I and Abdulaziz, was an Ottoman princess, a renowned female Diwan poet and a philanthropist....

 - Adile Sultan Palace

Adile Sultan Palace

Adile Sultan Palace is a former royal residence, which was used later as a school building, and is a cultural centre today located in Kandilli neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey.- History :...

 - Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes was the first democratically elected Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet...

 - Adnan Oktar

Adnan Oktar

Adnan Oktar , also known as Harun Yahya, is an author and Islamic creationist. In 2007, he sent thousands of unsolicited copies of the Atlas of Creation advocating Islamic creationism to American scientists, members of Congress, and science museums...

 - Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

 - Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along the Akarçay River. Elevation...

 - Afyonkarahisar Province

Afyonkarahisar Province

Afyonkarahisar Province , also called more simply Afyon Province, is a province in western Turkey.Adjacent provinces are Kütahya to the northwest, Uşak to the west, Denizli to the southwest, Burdur to the south, Isparta to the southeast, Konya to the east, and Eskişehir to the north. The provincial...

 - Ağrı

Agri

Agri may refer to:* As shorthand or prefix referring to agriculture* Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development * Azerbaijan–Georgia–Romania Interconnector * Ağrı, a city in eastern Turkey* the Agri in southern Italy...

 - Ağrı Province

Agri Province

The Ağrı Province is a province in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran to the east, Kars to the North, Erzurum to the Northwest, Muş and Bitlis to the Southwest, Van to the south, and Iğdır to the northeast. Area 11,376 km². Population 542,022 ....

 - Ahi Beylik - Ahmed I

Ahmed I

Ahmed I or Ahmed Bakhti was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.-Biography:...

 - Ahmed II

Ahmed II

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695...

 - Ahmed III

Ahmed III

Ahmed III was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV . His mother was Mâh-Pâre Ummatullah Râbi'a Gül-Nûş Valide Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hajioglupazari, in Dobruja...

 - Ahmed Djemal

Ahmed Djemal

Djemal Pasha or Ahmed Djemal , was a Young Turk and member of the Three Pashas. Ahmed Djemal was also Mayor of Istanbul.- Biography :...

 - Ahmet Ertegün

Ahmet Ertegun

Ahmet Ertegün was a Turkish American musician and businessman, best known as the founder and president of Atlantic Records. He also wrote classic blues and pop songs and served as Chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum...

 - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament between 1942 and 1946.-Biography:...

 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer

Ahmet Necdet Sezer

- External links :* , Presidency of the Republic of Turkey...

 - Ahmet Piriştina

Ahmet Piristina

Ahmet Piriştina was a well-known Turkish politician. He is of Albanian descendant.-Biography:Ahmet Piriştina was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1952. He was elected mayor of İzmir from Republican People's Party in two consecutive elections. He died of a heart attack at the age of 52...

 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

Ahmet Taner Kislali

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, journalist/author, academics and politician.-Biography:...

 - Ahmed Vefik Pasha

Ahmed Vefik Pasha

Ahmet Vefik Pasha , was a famous Ottoman statesman, diplomat, playwright and translator of the Tanzimat period. He was commissioned with top-rank governmental duties, including presiding over the first Ottoman parliament. He also became a grand vizier for two brief periods...

 - Akdeniz, Mersin - Akdere

Akdere

- Geography :Akdere is in the rural area of Silifke district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. The distance to Silifke is and to Mersin is . The coordinates of the town are about . Akdere is in a narrow valley which runs parallel to Mediterranean Sea. So although the bird’s flight...

 - Aksaray

Aksaray

Aksaray is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital district of Aksaray Province. According to 2009 census, population of the province is 376 907 of which 171,423 live in the city of Aksaray. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is , with the highest...

 - Aksaray Province

Aksaray Province

Aksaray Province is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Konya along the west and south, Niğde to the southeast, Nevşehir to the east, and Kırşehir to the north. It covers an area of 7,626 km²...

 - Aktepe

Aktepe

- Geography :Aktepe at is a part of Hassa district of Hatay Province. It is south of Hassa and north of Antakya, the capital of the province. The population is 8200 as of 2010 It is planned to relocate 296 families to Aktepe from various villages...

 - Alahan Monastery

Alahan Monastery

The Alahan Monastery is a one hour walking distance from the village of Alahan, located in the province of Mersin, Turkey. The site is being considered to be put on the World Heritage list of sites who have "outstanding universal value" to the world....

 - Alev Alatlı

Alev Alatli

Alev Alatlı is a Turkish economist, philosopher, columnist and bestselling novelist.-Early years:She was born 1944 in the town of Menemen in western Turkey to an officer's family...

 - Alevi

Alevi

The Alevi are a religious and cultural community, primarily in Turkey, constituting probably more than 15 million people....

 - Alexandria Troas

Alexandria Troas

Alexandria Troas is an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos . It is located in the modern Turkish province of Çanakkale...

 - Ali Babacan

Ali Babacan

Ali Babacan is a Turkish politician and the current Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the Economy. He was previously Minister of Economy in the 58th cabinet from the Justice and Development Party . On August 29, 2007, he was named Minister of Foreign Affairs of in the cabinet of...

 - Ali Erdemir

Ali Erdemir

Ali Erdemir, born in Kadirli, Adana, Turkey, is a Turkish materials scientist specializing in surface engineering and tribology.He graduated from the Metallurgy Department of the Istanbul Technical University in 1977. After working for two years at the İskenderun Iron and Steel Company in Turkey as...

 - Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina, surnamed Aslan, "the Lion", or the "Lion of Yannina", Ali Pashë Tepelena was an Ottoman Albanian ruler of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory which was also called Pashalik of Yanina. His court was in Ioannina...

 - Ali Sabancı

Ali Sabanci

Ali İhsan Sabancı , a member of the renowned Sabancı family in third generation, is a Turkish businessman.-Biography:Ali was born 1969 in Adana, Turkey as the second child and youngest son of Şevket Sabancı . Between 1987 and 1991, he was educated in political science and economics at Tufts...

 - Ali Sami Yen

Ali Sami Yen

Ali Sami Yen is best known as the founder of Galatasaray Sports Club. His original name was Ali Sami Frashëri and he is the son of Sami Frashëri, one of the most famous Albanian writers, philosophers and playwrights...

 - Alluvial plains of Turkey

Alluvial plains of Turkey

Turkey is a peninsular country. At the north and south of the peninsulas the mountain ranges run parallel to sea. There are many short rivers flowing from the mountaneous highlands to surrounding seas. Alluvial plains are situated at the mouth of the rivers . But most of the plains are small....

 - Alp Arslan

Alp Arslan

Alp Arslan was the third sultan of the Seljuq dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty...

 - Alparslan Türkeş

Alparslan Türkes

Alparslan Türkeş was a Cypriot-born Turkish nationalist politician who was the founder and former president of the Nationalist Movement Party party...

 - Alpay (singer) - Alpay Özalan

Alpay Özalan

Alpay Fehmi Özalan is a former Turkish footballer.Alpay is currently a member of the management committee of Siirtspor.-Playing style:...

 - Altınpark

Altınpark

- Geography :Altınpark is in Altındağ district of Ankara, situated on the way connecting Ankara to Ankara airport. The park area is - History :Up to 1977, the park area was a golf course. In 1985, it was transformed into a public park by the metropolitan municipality of Ankara.- The park today :The...

 - Amasya

Amasya

- History :Its location in this steep valley makes the city a mountain stronghold, easy to defend, and thus Amasya has had a long and prominent history.-Antiquity:...

 - Amasya Province

Amasya Province

Amasya Province is a province of Turkey, situated on the Yeşil River in the Black Sea Region to the north of the country. Area 5,520 km². Population 334,786....

 - American Turkish Chamber of Commerce

American Turkish Chamber of Commerce

The American Turkish Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit business organization, which was officially established on March 11, 2008 and headquartered at the prestigious Caplen Building in Cherry Hill, New Jersey...

 - Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...

 - Anazarbus

Anazarbus

Anazarbus in Ancient Cilicia was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River and near its tributary the Sempas Su.A lofty isolated ridge formed its acropolis...

 - Ancient kingdoms of Anatolia

Ancient kingdoms of Anatolia

Below is a list of Ancient kingdoms in Anatolia. Anatolia was the home of many ancient kingdoms. This list does not include the earliest kingdoms, which were merely city states, except those that profoundly affected history...

 - Ancient road in Tarsus

Ancient road in Tarsus

Ancient road at is the unearthed section of an ancient road in the historical city of Tarsus, Turkey.Tarsus an ancient city known as the birth place of Paul the Apostle, is now a major district center in Mersin Province, Turkey. The road was accidentally unearthed in a construction pit in 1993...

 - Ancient settlements in Turkey

Ancient settlements in Turkey

Below is the list of ancient settlements in Turkey. There are innumerable ruins of ancient settlements spread all over the country. While some ruins date back to Neolithic times, most of them were settlements of Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Ionians, Urartians etc.- List of settlements :In the...

 - Anıtkabir

Anitkabir

Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey...

 - Ani

Ani

Ani is a ruined and uninhabited medieval Armenian city-site situated in the Turkish province of Kars, near the border with Armenia. It was once the capital of a medieval Armenian kingdom that covered much of present day Armenia and eastern Turkey...

 - Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

 - Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium

Ankara 19 Mayis Stadium

Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium is the home venue for three of Ankara's Süper Lig football clubs: Ankaragücü, Gençlerbirliği and Hacettepe. It was built in 1935 and is part of the 19 Mayıs Sports Complex, which is located in the Ulus district. The stadium has a capacity of 19,209...

 - Ankara Province

Ankara Province

Ankara Province in central Turkey is the location of the country's capital, the city of Ankara.Ankara also gave its name to the Ottoman Empire's Ankara Province which covered a larger area than the current province.- Geography :...

 - Antalya

Antalya

Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...

 - Antalya Province

Antalya Province

Antalya Province is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean sea.Antalya Province is the centre of Turkey's tourism industry, attracting 30% of foreign tourists visiting Turkey. The province of Antalya corresponds to the lands of...

 - Antakya (Antioch)

Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the...

 - ANZAC Cove

Anzac Cove

Anzac Cove is a small cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. It became famous as the site of World War I landing of the ANZAC on April 25, 1915. The cove is a mere long, bounded by the headlands of Ari Burnu to the north and Little Ari Burnu, known as Hell Spit, to the south...

 -Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor. Its site is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from İzmir....

 - Aphrodisias of Cilicia

Aphrodisias of Cilicia

Aphrodisias of Cilicia is the name given to the ruins of an ancient port city in Mersin Province , Turkey.- Geography :Aphrodisias is situated on Cape Tisan near the town of Yeşilovacık in the rural area of Silifke district which itself is a part of Mersin Province...

 - Ara Güler

Ara Güler

Ara Güler is a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".- Early life :...

 - Aras River - Aramaic language

Aramaic language

Aramaic is a group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic language phylum. The name of the language is based on the name of Aram, an ancient region in central Syria. Within this family, Aramaic belongs to the Semitic family, and more specifically, is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily,...

 - Arap Mosque - Arda Turan

Arda Turan

Arda Turan is a Turkish footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid and the Turkish national team, as a left winger. At the age of 22, prior to the 2009–10 season he was made the captain of Galatasaray....

 - Ardahan

Ardahan

Ardahan is a city in northeastern Turkey, near the Georgian border.-Ancient and medieval:In Ancient times the region was called Gogarene, which is assumed to derive from the name of Gugars, who were a Proto-Kartvelian tribe...

 - Ardahan Province

Ardahan Province

Ardahan Province is a province in the far north-east of Turkey, at the very end of the country, where Turkey borders with Georgia . The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan.- Geography :...

 - Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...

 - Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

 - Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...

 - Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia or ASALA was an Armenian nationalist militant organization, that operated from 1975 to 1986. The group also operated under other names such as The Orly Group and the 3 October Organization...

 - Arslanköy

Arslanköy

Arslanköy is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :Arslanköy is a mountain town at . Highway distance to Mersin is . It is a mountain town situated on Toros Mountains with an altitude of approximatelly...

 - Arsuz

Arsuz

- Geography :Arsuz at is a part of İskenderun district of Hatay Province. Distance to İskenderun is and to Antakya is . The population is 2214 as of 2010.- History :...

 - Artvin

Artvin

-History:See Artvin Province for the history of the region.-Places of interest:* Artvin or Livana castle, built in 937There are a number of Ottoman Empire houses and public buildings including:* Salih Bey mosque, built in 1792...

 - Artvin Province

Artvin Province

Artvin Province is a province in Turkey, on the Black Sea coast in the north-eastern corner of the country, on the border with Georgia.The provincial capital is the city of Artvin.-Geography:...

 - Arzum Onan

Arzum Onan

Arzum Onan is a Turkish television actress, a former model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1993.-Biography:She was born on October 31, 1973 in Ankara, Turkey. After the primary school in Ankara, her family moved to İstanbul, where she finished the vocational high school as a draftswoman.Arzum...

 - Assos

Assos

Assos , also known as Behramkale or for short Behram, is a small historically rich town in the Ayvacık district of the Çanakkale Province, Turkey....

 - Atagün Yalçınkaya

Atagün Yalçinkaya

Atagün Yalçınkaya is a Turkish boxer in the bantamweight division best known for winning the silver medal in the light-flyweight category at the 2004 Olympics.- Amateur :...

 - Atakent

Atakent

- Geography :Atakent is a Mediterranean coastal town in Silifke district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. Alluvial plains of Silifke lie in the west of the town and hilly coastline is in the east of the town. The town is on the D 400 highway. The distance to Mersin is and to Silifke is...

 - Atatürk - Atatürk International Airport

Atatürk International Airport

Atatürk International Airport is the major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Opened in 1924 and located in Yeşilköy, on the European side of the city, it is west of the city centre. In 1980, the airport was renamed to Atatürk International Airport in honor of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the...

 - Atatürk Museum in Adana

Atatürk Museum (Adana)

Atatürk Museum exhibits War of Independence and the first years of Republic at the mansion, Atatürk stayed during his trips to Adana. Overlooking to the Seyhan River, the museum is located on Seyhan Street and it is open to public every day except Mondays...

 - Atatürk Museum in İstanbul

Atatürk Museum

Atatürk Museum ) is a national museum dedicated to the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey. It is located in the district of Şişli, on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey....

 - Atatürk Museum in Mersin

Atatürk Museum, Mersin

The Atatürk Museum in Mersin is a two storey house in Mersin, which hosted the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his wife in 1925.- History :...

 - Atay Aktuğ

Atay Aktug

Atay Aktuğ, is the former president of the Turkish football club Trabzonspor.Atay was a player for Trabzonspor in the late sixties and early seventies. He was voted in as president after his predecessor Özkan Sümer suddenly resigned in August 2003...

 - Atayurt

Atayurt

- Geography :Atayurt is in the fertile alluvial plain of Silifke district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. The town is on the D 400 highway. The distance to Mersin is and to Silifke is . The coordinates are about...

 - Atilla Altıkat

Atilla Altikat

Colonel Atilla Altikat was the Turkish military attaché to Ottawa, Canada, who was assassinated in 1982. The Armenian group, Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide, claimed responsibility for the attack. The act was forcefully condemned by the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau.Before...

 - Atmeydanı Incident

Atmeydanı Incident

Atmeydanı incident was a rebellion in the Ottoman Empire during the stagnation period. The name Atmeydanı refers to modern Sultan Ahmet Square in İstanbul .- Background :...

 - Avni Arbaş

Avni Arbas

Avni Arbaş was a Turkish artist.Arbaş was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He is best known for his paintings of scenes from daily life in Turkey, the Turkish War of Independence, the Bosphorus, fishermen, horses and nature. He died of cancer in İzmir in 2003.His granddaughter Derya Arbaş was an actress....

 - Aya Tekla Church

Aya Tekla Church

Aya Tekla Church, also known as Aya Thecla or Aya Thekla, is a ruins site of an ancient church in Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :...

 - Ayaş, Mersin

Ayaş, Mersin

Ayaş, is a Mediterranean coastal town in Mersin Province, Turkey-Geography:Ayaş is a part of Erdemli district which is a part of Mersin Province. It is on the Datça Mersin highway at about . Distance to Mersin is and to Erdemli is . The population is 2391 as of 2010...

 - Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha

Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha

Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha was a short term Ottoman grand vizier in 1688.- Early years :...

 - Aydın

Aydin

Aydın is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of Büyük Menderes River at a commanding position for the region extending from the uplands of the valley down to the seacoast...

 - Aydın Province

Aydin Province

Aydın Province is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın which has a population of approx. 150,000 . Other towns in the province include the summer seaside resorts of Didim and Kuşadası.-History:Aydın was founded by the ancient...

 - Aydın Reis

Aydın Reis

Aydın Reis was an Ottoman admiral.-Early years:He was a Turk from Karaman area, Central Anatolia . In the late 15th century he was the subordinate of Kemal Reis, the most important sea man of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Beyazid II.He took service under Ottoman Empire as a captain...

 - Aydın Yılmaz

Aydin Yilmaz

Aydın Yılmaz is a Turkish footballer playing as attacking midfielder for Galatasaray in the Süper Lig.-Club career:Aydın is a product of the Galatasaray Youth Team....

 - Aykut Kocaman

Aykut Kocaman

Aykut Kocaman is a former Turkish footballer in the striker position and current manager of Fenerbahçe. He is the first person in the club's history to have won the Süper Lig in his playing and managerial career...

 - Ayvagediği

Ayvagediği

-Geography:Ayvagediği is in Toroslar district, capital of which is actually in Greater Mersin. Ayvagediği is a mountain town at an average altitude of in a valley on Toros Mountains. It is an example of a series of towns called yayla , which are used as summer residences for city dwellers in...

 - Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

 - Aziz Nesin

Aziz Nesin

Aziz Nesin was a famous Turkish writer and humorist of Crimean Tatar origin and author of more than 100 books.-Pseudonyms:...

 - Azra Akın

Azra Akin

Azra Akın is a Dutch born Turkish model and actress. She is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World 2002 and Miss Turkey 2002.-Biography:...

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Babai Revolt

Babai Revolt

- Background :Sultanate of Rûm was a medieval state in Anatolia founded by Seljuq Turks who had recently converted to Islam. Although initially a part of the Great Seljuk Empire, it lasted longer than the Great Seljuks, reaching its apogee during the reign of Alaattin Keykubat I. But in the mid...

 - Babur

Babur

Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother...

 - Bademdere

Bademdere

-Geography:Bademdere is in the rural area of Çamardı district which is a part of Niğde Province. The distance to Çamardı is and to Niğde is . The town is on the northern slopes of Toros Mountains with an average altitude of The population of the town is 1,788 as of 2010.-History:The settlement...

 - Bahçeli

Bahçeli, Niğde

- Geography :Bahçeli is a part of Bor district of Niğde Province. At it is very close to Kemerhisar, another town in Niğde Province. Distance to Kemerhisar is to Bor is and to Niğde is . The population of the town is 2325 as of 2010 - History :...

 - Baibars

Baibars

Baibars or Baybars , nicknamed Abu l-Futuh , was a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. He was one of the commanders of the forces which inflicted a devastating defeat on the Seventh Crusade of King Louis IX of France and he led the vanguard of the Egyptian army at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260, which marked...

 - Balcılar

Balcılar

- Geography :Balcılar is in the rural area of Taşkent district which is a part of Konya Province. It is on the northern slopes of Toros Mountains at . The town is far from the main highways; the distance to Taşkent is and to Konya is...

 - Balıkesir

Balikesir

Balıkesir is the capital city of Balıkesir Province. Balıkesir is in the Marmara region of Turkey and has a population of 265,747 inhabitants. Old name is Karesi or Karasi.- History :...

 - Balıkesir Province

Balikesir Province

Balıkesir Province is a province in midwestern Turkey, having coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale to the west, İzmir to the southwest, Manisa to the south, Kütahya to the southeast, and Bursa to the east. The provincial capital is Balıkesir City...

 - Balizza

Balizza

Balizza is a prêt-à-porter fashion house located in Istanbul, Turkey which exports mostly to European countries, Russia, and the United States. Balizza was the first fashion group from Turkey to attended the Milan Fashion Week....

 - Balkan Mountains

Balkan Mountains

The Balkan mountain range is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. The Balkan range runs 560 km from the Vrashka Chuka Peak on the border between Bulgaria and eastern Serbia eastward through central Bulgaria to Cape Emine on the Black Sea...

 - Balkan Wars

Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

 - Balkans

Balkans

The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

 - Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

Baltacı Mehmet Pasha was an Ottoman grand vizier. -Early years:Mehmet was born in Osmancık, near Çorum . He was of Turkish origin. He travelled to North Africa, which was then Ottoman territory...

 - Barış Manço

Baris Manço

Barış Manço was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer. He composed about 200 songs, some of which were translated into a variety of languages including English, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Urdu and Arabic...

 - Bartın

Bartin

-Culture:The city hosts strawberry festivals in spring. The city also has beaches of good quality.-External links:* *...

 - Bartın Province

Bartin Province

Bartın Province is a small province in northern Turkey on the Black Sea, surrounding the city of Bartın. It is to the east from Zonguldak Province.The town of Bartın contains a number of very old wooden houses which are no longer extant in other places....

 - Basilica Cistern

Basilica Cistern

The Basilica Cistern , is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul , Turkey...

 - Batman, Turkey

Batman, Turkey

Batman is a city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey and the capital of Batman Province. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters above sea level, near the confluence of the Batman River and the Tigris. The Batı Raman oil field, which is the largest oil field in Turkey, is located just outside...

 - Batman Province

Batman Province

Batman Province is a Turkish province southeast of Anatolia. The province's population exceeded 500,000 in 2010.The province is important because of its reserves and production of oil which was started in the 1940s. There is a 494-km long oil pipeline from Batman to the Turkish port of İskenderun....

 - Batman River

Batman River

The Batman River is a major tributary of the Tigris, joining it near the source of Tigris called Dicle River in southeast Turkey. It originates in the Anti-Taurus Mountains and flows approximately from north to south, passing near the city of Batman and forming a natural border between the Batman...

 - Battle of Çıldır

Battle of Çıldır

Battle of Çıldır was fought in 1578 during Ottoman–Safavid War .-Background:The peace between the Ottoman Empire and Persian Empire after the treaty of Amasya continued from 1555 to 1578. When Murat III of the Ottoman Empire ascended to throne in 1574, Tahmasp I of Persia sent presents to Murat...

 - Battle of Chunuk Bair

Battle of Chunuk Bair

The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of New Zealand and Britain. Allied units that made the summit of Chunuk Bair early a.m...

 - Battle of Gallipoli

Battle of Gallipoli

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli, took place at the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War...

 - Battle of Gully Ravine

Battle of Gully Ravine

The Battle of Gully Ravine was a World War I battle fought at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula. By June 1915 all thoughts the Allies had of a swift decisive victory over the Ottoman Empire had vanished...

 - Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli)

Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli)

The Battle of Hill 60 was the last major assault of the Battle of Gallipoli. It was launched on 21 August 1915 to coincide with the attack on Scimitar Hill made from the Suvla front by General Stopford's British IX Corps. Hill 60 was a low knoll at the northern end of the Sari Bair range which...

 - Battle of Karboğazı

Battle of Karboğazı

Battle of Karboğazı was a clash between Turkish nationalists and the French battalion on Toros Mountains during the Turkish war of independence. - Background :...

 - Battle of Krithia Vineyard

Battle of Krithia Vineyard

The Battle of Krithia Vineyard was intended as a minor British action at Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula to divert attention from the imminent launch of the August Offensive. Instead, the British commander, Brigadier General H.E...

 - Battle of Lone Pine

Battle of Lone Pine

The Battle of Lone Pine was a battle between Australian and Turkish forces that took place during the Gallipoli campaign from 6–10 August 1915. It was part of a diversion to draw attention from the main assaults of 6 August against the Sari Bair peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971, which became...

 - Battle of Sakarya

Battle of Sakarya

The Battle of Sakarya , also known as the Battle of the Sangarios , was an important engagement in the Greco-Turkish War and Turkish War of Independence....

 - Battle of Torches

Battle of Torches

The Battle of Torches was fought in 1583 during the Ottoman–Safavid War . The name of the battle refers to torches used during night clashes. - Background :...

 - Battle of Sari Bair

Battle of Sari Bair

The Battle of Sari Bair , also known as the August Offensive, was the final attempt made by the British in August 1915 to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during First World War.The Battle of Gallipoli had raged on two fronts, Anzac and Helles, for three months since...

 - Battle of Scimitar Hill

Battle of Scimitar Hill

The Battle of Scimitar Hill was the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. It was also the largest single-day attack ever mounted by the Allies at Gallipoli, involving three divisions...

 - Battle of the Nek

Battle of the Nek

The Battle of the Nek was a small World War I battle fought as part of the Gallipoli campaign. "The Nek" was a narrow stretch of ridge in the Anzac battlefield on the Gallipoli peninsula. The name derives from the Afrikaans word for a "mountain pass" but the terrain itself was a perfect bottleneck...

 - Battle of Vienna

Battle of Vienna

The Battle of Vienna took place on 11 and 12 September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months...

 - Battle of Yassıçemen

Battle of Yassıçemen

Battle of Yassi Chemen was a battle fought in Erzincan Province, Turkey in 1230.- Background :Jalal ad-Din was the last ruler of the Khwarezm Shahs. Actually the territory of the sultanate had been annexed by Mongol Empire during the reign of Jalal ad-Din’s father. But Jalal ad-Din continued to...

 - Bayburt

Bayburt

Bayburt is a city in northeast Turkey lying on the Çoruh River, and is the provincial capital of Turkey's Bayburt Province.Bayburt was once an important center on the ancient Silk Road and it was visited by Marco Polo and Turkish excursionist Evliya Celebi. Remains of its Byzantine castle still...

 - Bayburt Province

Bayburt Province

Bayburt Province is a province in the north-east of Turkey. Population of the province is 74,412 and total area is 3,652 km². The capital city is Bayburt.- Districts :Bayburt province is divided into 3 districts :* Aydıntepe...

 - Bayezid I

Bayezid I

Bayezid I was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1389 to 1402. He was the son of Murad I and Valide Sultan Gülçiçek Hatun.-Biography:Bayezid was born in Edirne and spent his youth in Bursa, where he received a high-level education...

 - Bayezid II

Bayezid II

Bayezid II or Sultân Bayezid-î Velî was the oldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512...

 - Bayram Pasha

Bayram Pasha

Bayram Pasha was an Ottoman grand vizier.- Life :Bayram, whose family was from Ladik, near the Anatolian city of Amasya was a member of janissary. Although janissary corps were originally based on devshirme system, beginning by the reign of Murat III Turks were also admitted into the corps...

 - Behram Kurşunoğlu

Behram Kursunoglu

Behram Kurşunoğlu was a Turkish physicist and one of the founders of the University of Miami's Center for Theoretical Studies. He was best known for his works on unified field theory, energy and global issues. Moreover, he participated in the discovery of two different types of neutrinos in late...

 - belemedik

Belemedik

Belemedik is small village in Adana Province, Turkey. But it was one of the important settlements on Toros Mountains during the early years of the 20th century and especially the World War I years.- Geography :...

 - Belkahve Pass

Belkahve Pass

Belkahve is a mountain pass in İzmir Province, Turkey.Belkahve is situated east of İzmir on the highway connecting İzmir to hinterland. Its coordinates are and the maximum altitude is . As the average altitude of Turkey is over , Belkahve is considered a low-altitude pass. It is the first...

 - Berdan River

Berdan River

The Berdan River, also called the Tarsus River , is a river in Mersin Province, south Turkey. The historical city of Tarsus is by the river.- Geography :...

 - Beşiktaş

Besiktas

Beşiktaş is a municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and on the east by the Bosphorus...

 - Beşiktaş J.K.

Besiktas J.K.

Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü , or simply Beşiktaş , is a Turkish sports club. The club's football team is one of the major teams in Turkey. The professional sports club, founded in 1903, is based in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey...

 - Betül Mardin

Betül Mardin

Betûl Mardin is a famous Turkish public relations specialist. She is called the "grand dame of public relations"....

 - Bey

Bey

Bey is a title for chieftain, traditionally applied to the leaders of small tribal groups. Accoding to some sources, the word "Bey" is of Turkish language In historical accounts, many Turkish, other Turkic and Persian leaders are titled Bey, Beg, Bek, Bay, Baig or Beigh. They are all the same word...

 - Beylik of Demleç - Beylik of Erzincan

Beylik of Erzincan

Beylik of Erzincan was a principality in East Anatolia, Turkey in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.- Background :After the battle of Kösedağ in 1243, Ilkhanid Mongols became the de facto rulers of Anatolia...

 - Beylik of Tanrıbermiş

Beylik of Tanrıbermiş

Beylik of Tanrıbermiş was a small and short-lived principality in Western Anatolia, during the late 11th century.After the battle of Malazgirt in 1071, Oghuz Turkmen tribes led by ghazi warriors began to settle in Anatolia. A ghazi named Tanrıbermiş was one of them. Beginning by 1074 he founded a...

 - Beyoğlu

Beyoglu

Beyoğlu is a district located on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city by the Golden Horn...

 - Bilecik

Bilecik

-External links:* http://www.eksisozluk.com/show.asp?t=bilecik%20diye%20bir%20yerin%20asl%C4%B1nda%20olmamas%C4%B1%20 Bilecik Conspiracy* http://www.bilecikaktuel.com* * http://www.voyagerbook.com/eng/iller/11/11.asp*...

 - Bilecik Province - Bilge Khan

Bilge Khan

Bilge Qaghan was khagan of the Second Eastern Turkic Khaganate...

 - Bilkent University

Bilkent University

İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research...

 - Bingöl

Bingöl

Bingöl is a city in Eastern Turkey. It is also known as Çabakcur , which means violent water in Armenian. It is surrounded by mountains and a large number of glacier lakes, hence the name . Lately, the town has become a popular tourist destination...

 - Bingöl Province

Bingöl Province

Bingöl Province is a province of Turkey in Eastern Anatolia. The province was created in 1946 out of parts of Elazığ and Erzincan. The new province was known as Çapakçur Province until 1950. Its neighbouring provinces are Tunceli, Erzurum, Muş, Diyarbakır, Erzincan and Elazığ. The province covers...

 - Bitlis

Bitlis

Bitlis is a town in eastern Turkey and the capital of Bitlis Province. The town is located at an elevation of 1,400 metres, 15 km from Lake Van, in the steep-sided valley of the Bitlis River, a tributary of the Tigris. The local economy is mainly based on agricultural products which include...

 - Bitlis Province

Bitlis Province

Bitlis Province is a province of eastern Turkey, located to the west of Lake Van.-History:Bitlis was formed as an administrative district in the 17th Century...

 - Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

 - Boğaziçi University

Bogaziçi University

Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...

 - Bolu

Bolu

- Places of interest :The countryside around Bolu offers excellent walking and other outdoor pursuits. There are hotels in the town for visitors. Sights near the town include:* The 14th century mosque, Ulu Camii...

 - Bolu Province

Bolu Province

Bolu Province is a province in north western in the Black Sea region of Turkey, midpoint between the large cities of Istanbul and Ankara. It covers an area of 7,410 km², and the population is 271,208....

 - Boraboy

Boraboy

- Geography :Boraboy at is a part of Taşova district of Amasya province. It is a mountain town with a beautiful lake. Distance to Taşova is and to Amasya is . The settled population is 879 as of 2009....

 - Bosporus

Bosporus

The Bosphorus or Bosporus , also known as the Istanbul Strait , is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with the Dardanelles...

 - Bozgüney

Bozgüney, Adana

Bozgüney is a town in Adana Province, Turkey.- Geography :Bozgüney is a part of Tufanbeyli district which in turn is a part of Adana Province. It is at the extreme north of the province with coordinates . It is on the northern slopes of Toros Mountains with an altitude of . Distance to Adana is ...

 - Buca

Buca

Buca is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey. It is one of the main districts of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality.Buca was one of the preferred settlement areas of İzmir's community of Levantines...

 - Buca Gölet

Buca Gölet

Buca Gölet is an artificial lake and a recreation center around the lake in İzmir, Turkey.Buca gölet and the park is in Buca intracity district at about and was established in 1999 by the Buca municipality of İzmir. The total area of the center is...

 - Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 - Bulgarian St Stephen Church

Bulgarian St Stephen Church

The Bulgarian St Stephen Church , also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church, is a Bulgarian Orthodox church in Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey, famous for being made of cast iron. The church belongs to the Bulgarian minority in the city...

 - Burdur

Burdur

Burdur , is a city southwestern Turkey and the seat of the Burdur Province of Turkey. It is located at , on the shore of Lake Burdur...

 - Burdur Province

Burdur Province

Burdur Province is a province of Turkey, located in the southwest and bordering Muğla and Antalya to the South, Denizli to the West, Afyon to the North, and Isparta to the East...

 - Bursa - Bursa Province

Bursa Province

Bursa Province is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the north. The province has an area of 11,043 km2 and a population of 3,187,000...

 - Bülent Ecevit

Bülent Ecevit

Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, who was the leader of Republican People's Party , later of the Democratic Left Party and four-time Prime Minister of Turkey.- Personal life :...

 - Bülent Eczacıbaşı

Bülent Eczacibasi

Bülent Eczacıbaşı is a Turkish wealthy businessman. Currently, he is the chairman of Eczacıbaşı Holding, a prominent Turkish industrial group with investments in pharmaceuticals, personal care products, consumer products, building products and financial services.He was born in 1949 to Nejat...

 - Bülent Ersoy

Bülent Ersoy

Bülent Ersoy is a transgender Turkish celebrity and popular singer of Ottoman classical music. Over the years, Ersoy has become a symbol for the increased tolerance for LGBT figures in Turkish media....

 - Bülent Korkmaz

Bülent Korkmaz

Bülent Korkmaz is a retired Turkish football centre back and manager of Karabükspor. He played for Galatasaray for his whole career , where fans nicknamed him Büyük Kaptan ....

 - Büyükeceli

Büyükeceli

- Geography :Büyükeceli had been founded on the southern slopes of Toros Mountains at . It is near to Mediterranean coast and recent housing of the town is almost at the side side. It is a part of Gülnar district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. It is on the Mersin Antalya highway. The...

 - Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

 - Byzantium

Byzantium

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas . The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion...

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Cahit Arf

Cahit Arf

Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.-Biography:Cahit Arf was born on 11 October 1910 in Selanik , which was then...

 - Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent

Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent

The imperial campaigns The Ottoman Turkish name for the imperial campaigns, according to Şemseddin Sâmî in his book of Suleiman the MagnificentSuleiman the Magnificent is also known as Suleiman I are a series of conflicts led by Suleiman, who was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the...

 - Capes of Turkey

Capes of Turkey

A cape is a point of land extending into the sea. Turkey, being a country of two big peninsulas is surrounded by four seas and has many capes. The surrounding seas are Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea.)- The list :The following list gives the names of capes of Turkey...

- Cappadocia

Cappadocia

Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province.In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine...

 - Capture of Baghdad (1638) - Capture of Belgrade (1739)

Capture of Belgrade (1739)

Capture of Belgrade refers to recapture of Belgrade by the Ottoman Empire in 1739.- Background :According to the Treaty of Pruth signed in 1711 between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, the Russians had stipulated to stop interfering in the affairs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

 - Capture of Cairo

Capture of Cairo

The Capture of Cairo refers to the capture of the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt by the Ottoman Empire in 1517.-Background:The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt was a Muslim dynasty in Egypt . The Mamluks were not Egyptians. They constituted a class of privileged slaves of either Turkic or...

 - Celal Bayar

Celal Bayar

Celâl Bayar was a Turkish politician, statesman and the third President of Turkey. At the time of his death, he was the longest lived former head of state, living over 103 years .-Early years:He was born in 1883 at Umurbey, a village of Gemlik, Bursa as the son of a religious leader and teacher...

 - Cem Karaca

Cem Karaca

Muhtar Cem Karaca , also called Cem Baba , was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement.-Biography:...

 - Cemal Gürsel

Cemal Gürsel

Cemal Gürsel , was a Turkish army officer, and the fourth President of Turkey.- Early life :He was born in the city of Erzurum to the Turkish parents as the son of an Ottoman Army officer, Abidin Bey, the grandson of Ibrahim and the great-grandson of Haci Ahmad...

 - Cemal Süreya

Cemal Süreya

Cemal Süreyya was a poet and writer.-Biography:After the 1938 Dersim Rebellion, Sureya and his family were forcefully deported to Bilecik, a Turkish city in western Anatolia. This had a significant affect on his poems.He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University...

 - Cennet and Cehennem

Cennet and Cehennem

Cennet and Cehennem are the names of two big sinkholes on the Toros Mountains, in Mersin Province, Turkey. The sinkholes are among the touristic attractions of the province.- Geography :...

 - Cevdet Sunay

Cevdet Sunay

Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish army officer, political leader and the fifth President of Turkey.He was born in 1899 in Çaykara, Trabzon Province, in the Ottoman Empire. After attending elementary school and middle school in Erzurum and Edirne, he graduated from Kuleli Military High School in Istanbul...

 - Cezzar Ahmet - Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey -Charter of Alliance

Charter of Alliance

The Charter of Alliance was a treaty between the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and a number of powerful local rulers signed in 1808, in an attempt to regulate their power and relations with the central Ottoman government.- Background :...

 - Cinema of Turkey

Cinema of Turkey

Turkish cinema is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, expatriates across Europe, and in rare cases, the USA....

 - Cities conquered by the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire - Cleopatra's gate

Cleopatra's Gate

Cleoptra's Gate is a city gate of Tarsus, in Mersin Province, Turkey, named after the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.- History of Tarsus and its walls :...

 - Climate in Turkey - Communications in Turkey

Communications in Turkey

The telecommunications liberalisation process started in 2004 after the creation of the Telecommunication Authority, and is still ongoing. Private sector companies operate in mobile telephony, long distance telephony and Internet access...

 - Communist Party of Turkey

Communist Party of Turkey

The Communist Party of Turkey was a political party in Turkey. The party was founded by Mustafa Suphi in 1920, and was soon to be banned. It worked as a clandestine opposition party throughout the Cold War era, and was persecuted by the various military regimes. Many intellectuals, like Nazım...

 - Convention of Scutari - Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

 - Council of Europe

Council of Europe

The Council of Europe is an international organisation promoting co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation...

 - Cornucopia (Magazine)

Cornucopia (magazine)

Cornucopia is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom and Turkey.-Content:Cornucopia was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English Language magazine that concerns Turkish culture...

- Crimean Khanate

Crimean Khanate

Crimean Khanate, or Khanate of Crimea , was a state ruled by Crimean Tatars from 1441 to 1783. Its native name was . Its khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, the thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan...

 - Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

 - Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War...

 - Culture of Turkey

Culture of Turkey

The culture of Turkey combines a largely diverse and heterogeneous set of elements that are derived from the Ottoman, European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian traditions...

 - Cumhuriyet Anıtı

Cumhuriyet Aniti

The Monument of the Republic is a notable monument located at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey to commemorate the formation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Built in two and half years with financial support from the population and unveiled by Dr...

 - Cüneyt Bey of Aydın

Cüneyt Bey of Aydın

Cuneyd Bey , was the ruler of Aydinid principality in what is now modern Turkey in the early 15th century Cuneyd Bey , ( ?-1425) was the ruler of Aydinid principality in what is now modern Turkey in the early 15th century Cuneyd Bey , ( ?-1425) was the ruler of Aydinid principality in what is...

 - Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 - Cyprus dispute

Cyprus dispute

The Cyprus dispute is the result of the ongoing conflict between the Republic of Cyprus and Turkey, over the Turkish occupied northern part of Cyprus....

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Çağ University

Çağ University

Çağ University is a private, non-profit university in Mersin Province, Turkey. It was established officially on 9 July 1997 by Baydoğan Education Foundation in Adana. Situated on the state highway near Yenice, it is west of Adana, east of Tarsus and east of Mersin...

 - Çağrı Bey

Çağrı Bey

Chaghri Beg/Bey was the co-ruler of the early Seljuq empire. His name means "merlin" or "falcon".-Background:...

 - Çanakçı rock tombs

Çanakçı rock tombs

- Geography :Çanakçı tombs are at about a few hundred meters west of Kanlıdivane sink hole. The general altitude of the area is around .They are sculpted on rocks on the southern side of a road running parallel to Datça-Mersin highway and the Mediterranean coastline at an altitude a few meters...

 - Çanakkale

Çanakkale

Çanakkale is a town and seaport in Turkey, in Çanakkale Province, on the southern coast of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the town is 106,116 . The mayor is Ülgür Gökhan ....

 - Çanakkale Province

Çanakkale Province

Çanakkale Province is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the town of Çanakkale.Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European and an Asian part. The European part is formed by the Gallipoli peninsula, while the Asian part is largely...

 - Çandarlı Family

Çandarlı family

The Çandarlı family was an important Ottoman family which provided the empire with five Grand Viziers during the 14th and 15th centuries. At the time, it was the second most important family after the Ottoman dynasty itself.- Background and history :...

 - Çankırı

Çankırı

-Agriculture:Various produce like wheat, corn, beans, apple etc. are grown in the farms, and fields that are rich of water.-Industry:Most of the industry is located near the city center and Korgun. Other towns that are in the industrial map of the city are Şabanözü, Çerkeş, Ilgaz, Kurşunlu, and...

 - Çankırı Province

Çankiri Province

Çankırı Province is a province of Turkey, which lies close to the capital, Ankara. The provincial capital is Çankırı.-Economy:Çankırı is primarily agricultural with wheat, beans, corn and tomatoes the most common crops.-Climate:...

 - Çarıklar

Çarıklar

- Geography :Çarıklar is a town within Anamur district of Mersin Province. Distance of the town center to Anamur is only . The borderline between the Anamur and Çarıklar is Dragon River at the west of Çarıklar. The coordinates of the midtown are . But it should be noted that Çarıklar is one of the...

 - Çatalca Peninsula

Çatalca Peninsula

-Geography:The peninsula is roughly rectangular. It is bordered by the Black Sea to the north, Sea of Marmara to the South and Bosphorus to the east. The west border is more or less arbitrary. But usually the western border of İstanbul Province is also taken as the border of the peninsula . With...

 - Çatalhöyük

Çatalhöyük

Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE...

 - Çaykavak Pass

Çaykavak Pass

Çaykavak is a mountain pass in Niğde Province, Turkey.Çaykavak is situated on the northern slopes of Toros Mountains on the highway connecting Niğde to the Mediterranean coast. It is to Niğde and to the highway, the main north to south highway in Central Turkey which merges to...

 - Çelemli

Çelemli

Çelemli is a municipality in the Yüreğir district of Adana Province.-Geography:Situated east of the Ceyhan River, Çelemli is inland from the Mediterranean sea at . Highway distance to Adana is 45 kilometres and to the historical city of Misis is . It is situated on a low valley with an...

 - Çeşme

Çesme

Çeşme is a coastal town and the center-town of the district of the same name in Turkey's western-most end, on a promontory on the tip of the peninsula which also carries the same name and which extends inland to form a whole with the wider Karaburun Peninsula...

 - Çeşmeli

Çeşmeli

-Geography:Çeşmeli is a part of Erdemli district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. The midtown is situated two kilometers north of Mediterranean seaside and at the east of the rivulet Kargıpınarı . The town of Kargıpınarı is at the west of the rivulet...

 - Çevik Bir

Cevik Bir

Çevik Bir was a member of the Turkish General Staff in the 1990s. He took a major part in several important international missions in the Middle East and North Africa...

 - Çınar Incident

Çınar Incident

Çınar Incident is the name of a 17th century rebellion in the Ottoman Empire.- Background :During the Cretan War , military expenditures of the Ottoman Empire increased, and the empire began experiencing economic difficulties...

 - Çiftehan

Çiftehan

- Geography :Çiftehan is a part of Ulukışla district which in turn is a part of Niğde Province. It is in the Toros Mountains at an altitude of about , north of the main passage of the mountain system known as Cilician Gates . At , it is east of Ulukışla and south of Niğde. The population is 1258...

 - Çiğdem Talu

Çigdem Talu

Çiğdem Talu was a Turkish pop music songwriter.Çiğdem wrote her first song "Ağlıyorum Yine", which was sung by Nilüfer and released on her single, "Kalbim Bir Pusula". The great success of this song led her to write songs for many other singers, among them for Yeliz and Füsun Önal...

 - Çorlulu Ali Pasha

Çorlulu Ali Pasha

Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha was an Ottoman grand vizier of the early 18th century . After the Edirne event, Ahmet III appointed him as the beylerbey of Aleppo and later beylerbey of Tripoli . In 1704 he returned to İstanbul as a member of the Ottoman Porte. In 1706, he was appointed as grand vizier...

 - Çorum

Çorum

Çorum is a landlocked northern Anatolian city that is the capital of the Çorum Province of Turkey. Çorum is located inland in the central Black Sea Region of Turkey, and is approximately from Ankara and from Istanbul...

 - Çorum Province

Çorum Province

Çorum Province is a province in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, but lying inland and having more characteristics of Central Anatolia than the Black Sea coast....

 - Çukurova

Çukurova

Çukurova , historically known as Cilicia, is a geographic, economic and cultural region in south-central Turkey, covering the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay...

 - Çukurova, Adana

Çukurova, Adana

Çukurova is a district in the Adana Province of Turkey. A large portion of the district is within the city of Adana, incorporated under the same name as a lower-tier municipality. It is a modern residential district which came into being in the last 30 years as the city expanded north...

 - Çukurova motorway

Çukurova motorway

Çukurova motorway is the unofficial name of the motorway of Çukurova in Turkey. It is actually composed of the motorways , and a part of...

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D 400 Highway - Dadaloğlu

Dadaloğlu

Dadaloğlu was an Ottoman folk poet -Background :In the Ottoman Empire there were two distinct literatures. Literature of the palace, so called divan literature used Ottoman Turkish, a language with extensive burrowings of words and phrases from Persian and Arabic. This language was not used in...

 - Damla Günay

Damla Gunay

Damla Günay is an athlete from Turkey. She competes in archery.Damla Günay represented Turkey at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 42nd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 620. In the first round of elimination, she faced 23rd-ranked Anja Hitzler of Germany...

 - Dana Adası

Dana Adası

Dana Adası is a small Mediterranean island of Turkey.- Geography :Dana Adası lies parallel to south coast of Turkey at in the province of Mersin. The distance from the shore is 2.5 km...

 - Darboğaz

Darboğaz

-Geography:Darbağaz is a part of Ulukışla district of Niğde Province. It is a mountain town with an average altitude of . The coordinates are . The highway distance to Ulukışla is and to Niğde is . The population is 2010 as of 2010-History:...

 -Dardanelles

Dardanelles

The Dardanelles , formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with its counterpart the Bosphorus. It is located at approximately...

 - Datça Peninsula

Datça Peninsula

The Datça Peninsula is an 80 km-long, narrow peninsula in southwest Turkey separating the Gulf of Gökova to the north from the Gulf of Hisarönü to the south. The peninsula corresponds almost exactly to the administrative district of Datça, part of Muğla Province...

 - Dedemli

Dedemli

-Geography:Dedemli is in the rural area of Hadim district which is a part of Konya Province. Dedemli is on Toros Mountains, at an altitude of . It is situated just at the west of headwaters of Göksu River and a few kilometers north of Korualan another mountain town. Midtown coordinates are ....

 - Deep state

Deep state

The Deep state is alleged to be a group of influential anti-democratic coalitions within the Turkish political system, composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services , Turkish military, security, judiciary, and mafia. The notion of deep state is similar to that of a "state within...

 - Demir Sabancı

Demir Sabanci

Demir Sabancı , a member of the Sabancı family in third generation, is a Turkish businessman and entrepreneur.He was born in year 1971 as the son of Özdemir Sabancı, who was murdered by a terrorist attack in 1996 in the building of headquarters of Sabancı Holding in İstanbul, Turkey...

 - Democratic Left Party

Democratic Left Party (Turkey)

The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup...

 - Democrat Party (current) - Democrat Party (1946) - Democratic Party (1970)

Democratic Party (Turkey, 1970)

- Background :Democrat Party which was the ruling party between 1950-1960 was closed by the military rule. In 1961 and 1965 elections most of ex Democrat Party adherents supported Justice Party, a party founded in 1961. After 1965 elections Justice Party came to power...

 - Democratic People's Party (Turkey)

Democratic People's Party (Turkey)

Democratic People's Party was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. DEHAP was founded 24 October 1997. It was the continuation of the People's Democracy Party , which was banned in March 2003 by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that it supported the Kurdistan Workers Party.At its...

 - Demography of Turkey - Denizli

Denizli

Denizli is a growing industrial city in the Southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about a hundred meters. Denizli is located in southwestern Turkey, in the country's Aegean Region.The city...

 - Denizli Province

Denizli Province

Denizli Province is a province of Turkey in Western Anatolia, on high ground above the Aegean coast. Neighbouring provinces are Uşak to the north, Burdur, Isparta, Afyon to the east, Aydın, Manisa to the west and Muğla to the south. It is located between the coordinates 28° 30’ and 29° 30’ E and...

 - Devşirme - Didyma

Didyma

Didyma was an ancient Ionian sanctuary, the modern Didim, Turkey, containing a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name...

 - Dilek Peninsula

Dilek Peninsula

Dilek Peninsula is a peninsula lying between the districts of Didim and Kuşadası in Aydın Province, western Turkey.The peninsula was made into a national park of 109.85 square kilometres , Dilek Yarimadası Milli Parki , in 1966, which is in part accessible to the public...

 - Divan

Divan

A divan was a high governmental body in a number of Islamic states, or its chief official .-Etymology:...

 - Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...

 - Diyarbakır Prison

Diyarbakır Prison

Diyarbakır Prison is a prison located in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey. It was built in 1980 as an E-type prison by the Ministry of Justice. After the September 12, 1980 Turkish coup d'état, the facility was transferred to military administration and became a Martial Law Military Prison...

 - Diyarbakır Province

Diyarbakir Province

Diyarbakır Province is a province in eastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15,355 km² and the population is 1,528,958. The provincial capital is Diyarbakir...

 - Dolmabahçe Palace

Dolmabahçe Palace

Dolmabahçe Palace located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coastline of the Bosphorus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1922, apart from a 22-year interval in which Yıldız Palace was used.- History :Dolmabahçe Palace...

 - Druze

Druze

The Druze are an esoteric, monotheistic religious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, which emerged during the 11th century from Ismailism. The Druze have an eclectic set of beliefs that incorporate several elements from Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism...

 - Düzbağ

Düzbağ

- Geography :Düzbağ is in the rural area of Çağlayancerit which is a part of Kahramanmaraş Province. The coordinates of the town are .The town is situated at the southern foot hill of a mountain. The altitude of the midtown is . The highway distance to Çağlayancerit is and to Kahramanmaraş is...

- Düzce Province

Düzce Province

Düzce Province is a province in northwestern Turkey. It is on the coastline of the Black Sea and is traversed by the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara. The main town is Düzce...

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Eastern Rumelia

Eastern Rumelia

Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an administratively autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire and Principality of Bulgaria from 1878 to 1908. It was under full Bulgarian control from 1885 on, when it willingly united with the tributary Principality of Bulgaria after a bloodless revolution...

 - Economy of Turkey

Economy of Turkey

The economy of Turkey is defined as an emerging market economy by the IMF and is largely developed, making Turkey one of the world's newly industrialized countries. The country is among the world's leading producers of agricultural products; textiles; motor vehicles, ships and other transportation...

 - Edirne

Edirne

Edirne is a city in Eastern Thrace, the northwestern part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Edirne served as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1453, before Constantinople became the empire's new capital. At present, Edirne is the capital of the Edirne...

 - Edirne event

Edirne event

The Edirne event was a chain of events in 1703 in the Ottoman Empire, which resulted in dethroning of Sultan Mustafa II.-Background:By the Treaty of Karlowitz , Ottoman Empire had to cede vast territories to Holy League countries. It was clear that both the army and the civil institutions had to be...

 -Edirne Province

Edirne Province

Edirne Province is the westernmost province of Turkey, located in Eastern Thrace along the Greek and Bulgarian border. The city's wealth, population and importance increased after it was declared as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire...

 - Elazığ

Elazig

Elâzığ is a city in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey and the seat of Elâzığ Province. It has a population of331,479 according to the 2010 census, and the plain on which the city extends has an altitude of 1067 metres....

 -Elazığ Province

Elazig Province

Elâzığ Province is a province of Turkey with its seat in the city of Elâzığ. The source of the Euphrates river is located in this province.The province has a population of 552,646 as of 2010...

 - Elections for Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

Elections for Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

The outcome of the elections for Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey is shown below. The number of metropolitan centers was three in 1984 and eight in 1989...

 - Elections in Turkey

Elections in Turkey

Turkey elects on the national level a legislature. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey has 550 members, elected for a four year term by a system based on proportional representation...

 - Elmas Mehmet Pasha - Elvan Abeylegesse

Elvan Abeylegesse

Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian-born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country...

 - Elvanlı

Elvanlı

- Geography :Elvanlı is a part of Erdemli district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. Situated at it is north of state road and north of the Mediterranean Sea coast. Distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is . The altitute of the village is about . The population of the village is 2131...

 - Emin Boztepe

Emin Boztepe

Emin Boztepe is an American martial artist of Turkish origin who held German nationality prior to naturalization. He first came to prominence for his fight in 1986 with noted Wing Chun practitioner William Cheung, and he continued to gain attention in the 1990s with a public challenge of the...

 - Enis Batur

Enis Batur

Ahmet Enis Batur is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, and editor.-Education:Born in Eskişehir, Enis Batur studied at St...

 - Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...

 - Erdal İnönü

Erdal Inönü

Erdal İnönü was a Turkish physicist and politician. He was the son of Turkey's second president İsmet İnönü...

 - Erkin Koray

Erkin Koray

Erkin Koray , has been in the Turkish rock music scene since the late 1950s or early 1960s. He is widely acclaimed as being the first person to ever play rock and roll in Turkey; in 1957, he and his band gained fame by playing covers of Elvis Presley and Fats Domino...

 - Erol Gelenbe

Erol Gelenbe

Sami Erol Gelenbe is a Turkish computer scientist, engineer and applied mathematician who currently holds the Dennis Gabor Professorship at Imperial College...

 - Erol Sabancı

Erol Sabanci

Erol Sabancı , a member of the renowned Sabancı family in second generation, is a billionaire Turkish banker.-Biography:Erol Sabancı is the Honorary Chairman of Akbank and the doyen of Turkish bankers...

 - Ertegün brothers

Ertegun brothers

The Ertegun brothers, Nesuhi Ertegün and Ahmet Ertegün , sons of Turkish diplomat Münir Ertegün, were the Turkish-American executives of Atlantic Records. They also co-founded the legendary New York Cosmos soccer team of the North American Soccer League....

 - Ertuğrul

Ertugrul

Ertuğrul was the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. He was the leader of the Kayı clan of the Oghuz Turks...

 - Ertuğrul Osman - Erzincan

Erzincan

-Trivia:Erzincan has the largest man made of Portrait of Atatürk, located north of the city, 176m×43m. It covers 7,500 square meter. Turkish Army made it 1982, in 29 days by 3,000 soldier, 100 tons of black and white paint was used...

 - Erzincan Province

Erzincan Province

Erzincan Province is a province in the eastern region of Anatolia, Turkey, and home to Erzincan, a city which was destroyed and rebuilt after an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on December 27, 1939...

 - Erzurum

Erzurum

Erzurum is a city in Turkey. It is the largest city, the capital of Erzurum Province. The city is situated 1757 meters above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 361,235 in the 2000 census. .Erzurum, known as "The Rock" in NATO code, served as NATO's southeastern-most air force post during the...

 - Erzurum Province

Erzurum Province

Erzurum Province is a Province of Turkey, in the Eastern Anatolia Region of the country. It is bordered by the provinces of Kars and Ağrı to the east, Muş and Bingöl to the south, Erzincan and Bayburt to the west, Rize and Artvin to the north and Ardahan to the northeast. The provincial capital is...

 - Esenpınar

Esenpınar

- Geography :Esenpınar is in the rural area of Erdemli district of Mersin Province. It is on the southern slopes of Toros Mountains at an altitude of . The distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is . The coordinates of the midtown are . The population is 1971 as of 2010- History :The former name of...

 - Eskişehir

Eskisehir

Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...

 - Eskişehir Province

Eskisehir Province

Eskişehir Province is a province in northwestern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Bilecik to the northwest, Kütahya to the west, Afyon to the southwest, Konya to the south, Ankara to the east, and Bolu to the north. The provincial capital is Eskişehir. Most of the province is laid down in...

 - Etimesgut

Etimesgut

Etimesgut or Etimesut, formerly Ahimesut, is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, mainly consisting of large public housing projects, from Ankara city centre. According to 2010 census, population of Etimesgut is 386,879...

 - Euphrates

Euphrates

The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...

 - Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 - European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

 - Evliya Çelebi

Evliya Çelebi

Evliya Çelebi was an Ottoman traveler who journeyed through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years.- Life :...

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Faculty of Arts and Sciences Building in İstanbul University

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Building in İstanbul University

Faculty of Arts and Sciences building in İstanbul University is one of the larger faculty buildings of the university. It is situated in Laleli neighborhood of İstanbul, Turkey....

 - Fahri Korutürk

Fahri Koruturk

Fahri Sabit Korutürk was a Turkish navy officer, diplomat and the sixth President of Turkey.-Biography:He was born in Istanbul, at Soğukçeşme Sokağı, a small street between Topkapı Palace and Hagia Sophia. He attended the navy cadet school in 1916, was graduated in 1923 and from the Naval Academy...

 - Fahri Tatan

Fahri Tatan

Fahri Tatan is a Turkish professional footballer. He currently plays for Adanaspor in the Turkish Super Lig.-Club career:...

 - Fall of Constantinople

Fall of Constantinople

The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which occurred after a siege by the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, against the defending army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI...

 - Fatih

Fatih

Fatih is a municipality and district in Istanbul, Turkey that encompasses most of the peninsula coinciding with historic Constantinople. In 2009, the district of Eminönü, formerly a separate municipality located at the tip of the peninsula, was merged into Fatih...

 - Fatih Terim

Fatih Terim

Fatih Terim, Commendatore OSSI, is a Turkish football former player and manager. Terim was born in Adana, Turkey to Nuriye and Talat Terim. His father, Talat, is a Turkish Cypriot who emigrated to Turkey....

 - Fatih University

Fatih University

Fatih University is a private university mainly located in Büyükçekmece, Istanbul, Turkey. The university was established in 1996 by the Turkish Association of Health and Medical Treatment...

 - Fatin Rüştü Zorlu

Fatin Rüstü Zorlu

Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.-Biography:...

 - Fazıl Küçük

Fazil Küçük

Fazıl Küçük was the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.Fazıl Küçük, the son of a farmer, was born in Nicosia in 1906. After graduating from the Turkish High School in Nicosia, Küçük went on to study medicine at the Universities of Istanbul, Lausanne and Paris...

 - Felicity Party - Fener

Fener

Fener is a neighborhood midway up the Golden Horn within the district of Fatih in Istanbul , Turkey. The streets in the area are full of historic wooden houses, churches, and synagogues dating from Byzantine and Ottoman eras. The area's name is a Turkish transliteration of the original Greek φανάρι...

 - Fenerbahçe S.K. - Feridun Karakaya

Feridun Karakaya

Feridun Karakaya was a well known Turkish comedy actor.-Biography:Karakaya educated in Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. He took part in several stage and film productions between years 1955 and 2002. He is best remembered with his famous character "Cilalı İbo" . He died of heart failure at the age of 76...

 - Fertek

Fertek

- Geography :Fertek at about is almost merged with Niğde, the distance between Fertek and Niğde city center is being about . The town is situated at the eastern slopes of the mountains with an altitude of about The population of the town is 1900 as of 2010...

 - Fethullah Gülen

Fethullah Gülen

Muhammed Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish preacher, author, educator, and Sufi Muslim scholar living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania . He is the founder and leader of the Gülen movement...

 - Fevzi Çakmak

Fevzi Çakmak

Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak was a Turkish soldier , politician. Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire, National Defence Minister, Prime minister of Ankara government, the second Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Grand National Assembly and the first Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of...

 - Fevzipaşa

Fevzipaşa

Fevzipaşa is a town in Gaziantep Province, Turkey- Geography :Fevzipaşa is a part of İslahiye district of Gaziantep Province. It is north of Islahiye. The highway distance to Gaziantep at the east is . Nur Mountains are just at the west of the town and the meadow-lands of Amik are at the east of...

 - Feza Gürsey

Feza Gürsey

Feza Gürsey was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. His best known contribution to theoretical physics is his work on the Nonlinear Chiral Lagrangian.-Biography:...

 - Feza Gürsey Science Center

Feza Gürsey Science Center

Feza Gürsey Science Center is a science museum in Ankara, Turkey. It is named after Feza Gürsey , the renowned Turkish mathematician and physicist....

 - Fındıkpınarı

Fındıkpınarı

Fındıkpınarı is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey.Fındıkpınarı is in Mezitli district, center of which is actually in Greater Mersin. It is mountainous town at with an altitude of . It is from Mersin. Situated among pine forests it is a popular summer resort...

 - Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey

Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey

Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey or more formally 50 works in 50 years is the name of a list published by the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Turkey about 50 prestigious projects of the civil engineering in Turkey. The list has five subsections about regional development, general purpose...

 - Fikret Mualla - Filiz Vural

Filiz Vural

Filiz Vural is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971.-Biography:Filiz participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper Hürriyet, and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Tunis, Tunisia, and...

 - First Battle of Krithia

First Battle of Krithia

The First Battle of Krithia was the first Allied advance of the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War. Starting at Helles on 28 April, three days after the initial landings, the attack broke down due to poor leadership and planning, lack of communications and exhaustion and demoralisation...

 - Flag of Turkey

Flag of Turkey

The flag of Turkey is a red flag with a white crescent moon and a star in its centre. The flag is called Ayyıldız or Albayrak . The Turkish flag is referred to as Alsancak in the Turkish National Anthem....

 - Foreign relations of Cyprus

Foreign relations of Cyprus

Cyprus is a member of the United Nations along with most of its agencies as well as the Commonwealth of Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Council of Europe...

 - Foreign relations of Greece

Foreign relations of Greece

Prominent issues in Greek foreign policy include the enduring dispute over Cyprus and differences with Turkey over the Aegean, the dispute over the name of the Republic of Macedonia , and relations with the United States.-Overview:Greece has diplomatic relations with almost all the...

 - Foreign relations of Turkey

Foreign relations of Turkey

Foreign relations of the Republic of Turkey are the Turkish government's policies in its external relations with the international community...

 - Freedom and Solidarity Party

Freedom and Solidarity Party

Freedom and Solidarity Party is a left-wing party in Turkey. The party has had limited electoral success, although it controls a number of town halls and is influential in some unions of public employees...

 - Fuzûlî

Fuzûlî

Fużūlī was the pen name of the Azerbaijani or the Bayat branch of Oghuz Turkish and Ottoman poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman...

 - Flora and Vegetation of Turkey

Flora and Vegetation of Turkey

In the year 2000 about 9300 species of vascular plants were known for the area of the Turkish Republic. The significance of this number becomes evident if we compare it with Europe as a whole, containing about 24% more species , distributed over a thirteen times larger area.The most important...

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Galata

Galata

Galata or Galatae is a neighbourhood in the Beyoğlu district on the European side of Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey. Galata is located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn, the inlet which separates it from the historic peninsula of old Constantinople. The Golden Horn is crossed by...

 - Galata Bridge

Galata Bridge

The Galata Bridge is a bridge that spans the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey. From the end of the 19th century in particular, the bridge has featured in Turkish literature, theater, poetry and novels.-History:...

 - Galata Tower

Galata Tower

The Galata Tower — called Christea Turris by the Genoese — is a medieval stone tower in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn...

 - Galatasaray S.K.

Galatasaray S.K.

Galatasaray Spor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club based in Istanbul, most notable for its football section, also known as Galatasaray S.K.. It also fields teams in Athletics, Basketball, Wheelchair basketball, Volleyball, Water polo, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Judo, Bridge, Equestrian, Handball,...

 - Galatasaray High School - Galatia

Galatia

Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC, following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. It has been called the "Gallia" of...

 - Galip Sokullu

Galip Sokullu

Galip Sokullu is a Turkish vocalist. He was born in the Sultantepe district in Istanbul, Turkey.-Musical:Galip Sokullu started his music career in 1972, starting in the Batı Müziği choir at Ankara Radyosu . He later entered the İstanbul Radyosu in 1977 as a TSM artist...

 - Gallipoli

Gallipoli

The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace , the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" , meaning "Beautiful City"...

 - Gazi Evrenos

Gazi Evrenos

Evrenos or Evrenuz was an Ottoman military commander, with an unlikely longevous career and lifetime...

 - Gazi Hüseyin Pasha

Gazi Hüseyin Pasha

Ghazi Husain Pasha or Deli Husain Pasha was an Ottoman military officer and stateman. He was Kapudan Pasha in the 1630s and briefly Grand Vizier in the late 1650s.- Early years :...

 - Gazi Yaşargil

Gazi Yasargil

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon . He is the founder of microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors with instruments of his own design...

 - Gaziantep

Gaziantep

Gaziantep , Ottoman Turkish: Ayintab) previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria...

 - Gaziantep Province

Gaziantep Province

Gaziantep Province is a province in south-central Turkey. Its capital is the city of Gaziantep which had a population of 853,513 as of 2000. Its neighbours are Adıyaman at north, Şanlıurfa at east, Syria and Kilis at south, Hatay at southwest, Osmaniye at west and Kahramanmaraş at northwest.An...

 - Gelibolu Peninsula - Gençlerbirliği

Gençlerbirligi

Gençlerbirliği Spor Kulübü is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Ankara, which is the capital of Turkey. Formed in 1923, Gençlerbirliği are nicknamed Ankara Rüzgârı . The club colours are black and red. They play their home matches at Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium.Domestically,...

 - Gençlik Parkı

Gençlik Parkı

- Geography :The park is almost at the center of Ankara. Its altitude is about , which makes it one of the lowest points of Ankara. It is surounded by Ulus Square in the north, Opera house in the east, Selim Sırrı Tarcan Sports Hall and Ankara Central Station in the south and, 19 Mayıs Stadium in...

 - Genocide of Ottoman Turks and Muslims - Geography of Turkey

Geography of Turkey

Turkey is situated in Anatolia and the Balkans, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria. The geographic coordinates of the country lie at:...

 - Georgia (country)

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 - Giresun

Giresun

Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.-Etymology:...

 - Giresun Province

Giresun Province

Giresun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane to the south-west, Erzincan to the south, Sivas to the south-east, and Ordu to the west. The provincial capital is Giresun....

 - Golden Horn

Golden Horn

The Golden Horn is a historic inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul and forming the natural harbor that has sheltered Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and other ships for thousands of...

 - Gökçeada and Bozcaada - Göksu (river)

Göksu

The Göksu is a river in Taşeli Peninsula . Both its sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern in the Geyik Mountains and the southern in the Haydar Mountains...

 - Göksu, Mersin

Göksu, Mersin

- Geography :Göksu at is a part of Mut district of Mersin Province. It is from Mut and from Mersin. The population is 2348 as of 2010 The road to the town diverges from the Mersin-Karaman highway at around the Alahan Monastery...

 - Göktepe

Göktepe

-Geography:Göktepe is a town in Sarıveliler district which is a part of Karaman Province. It is a mountain town on the Toros Mountains with an altitude of . Göktepe is quite detached from the main highways. The distance to Karaman is . The coordinates are...

 - Gölcük

Gölcük, İzmir

Gölcük is a little town and a summer resort in İzmir Province, Turkey. The name of the town means Little lake.-Geography:Gölcük is a part of Ödemiş district which in turn is a part of İzmir Province. It is situated around a small mountain lake at . The altitude of the lake is . It is accessible...

 - Gözlükule

Gözlükule

Gözlükule is a tumulus within the borders of Tarsus city, Mersin Province, Turkey. It is now a park with an altitude of with respect to surrounding area.-History:...

 - Gözne

Gözne

- Geography :Gözne at is north of Mersin. It is situated in the southern slopes of Toros Mountains. The average altitude is . In some locations of the town, both Mersin and the Mediterranean Sea can be viewed...

 - Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Grand National Assembly of Turkey

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey , usually referred to simply as the Meclis , is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Constitution. It was founded in Ankara on 23 April 1920 in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence...

 - Great Turkey Party - Great Union Party

Great Union Party

The Great Union Party is a nationalist political party in Turkey, created on January 29, 1993. It is considered to be close to the Grey Wolves organization, and is related to the "Alperen Ocakları" tendency, which operated a synthesis between Islamism and Turkish Nationalism, and separated itself...

 - Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 - Grey Wolves

Grey Wolves

The Idealist Youth , commonly known as Grey Wolves , is an ultra-nationalist neo-fascist youth organization. It is accused of terrorism. According to Turkish authorities, the organization carried out 694 murders between 1974–1980.-Name:...

 - Gulf of Antalya

Gulf of Antalya

The Gulf of Antalya is a large bay of the northern Levantine Sea, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea south of Antalya province, Turkey. It includes some of the main seaside resorts of Turkey, also known as the "Turkish riviera"....

 - Gulf of Fethiye

Gulf of Fethiye

The Gulf of Fethiye is a branch of the Mediterranean Sea in southwest Turkey. The cities of Fethiye and Göcek lie on it. It is bounded on the west by the Kurdoğlu cape and on the east by İlbis cape/Cape Angistro...

 - Gulf of İskenderun

Gulf of Iskenderun

The Gulf of İskenderun is a gulf or inlet of the Levantine Sea, the easternmost part of Mediterranean Sea, of which it forms the easternmost tip, on the southern coast of Turkey near its border with Syria. It also contains the northernmost point of the Levantine Sea...

 - Gulf of Mersin

Gulf of Mersin

Gulf of Mersin is one of the widest gulfs in Turkey. It is in the northeast of the Levantine Sea between the gulfs of İskenderun and Antalya. - Location :...

 - Gulfs of Turkey

Gulfs of Turkey

Turkey straddles two peninsulas: Anatolia in Asia and Thrace in Europe. The surrounding seas are the Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea. But the number of gulfs in the north and the south is not high, because the mountain ranges lie more or less parallel to the coastline...

 - Gülek

Gülek

Gülek is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :Gülek is situated along a valley on the Toros Mountains at . The main pass of these mountains, which is known as Gülek Pass , is just east of the town. The average altitude of the town is about...

 - Güler Sabancı

Güler Sabanci

Güler Sabancı is a third-generation female member of the renowned Sabancı family, and currently the chairperson of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-biggest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey.-Biography:...

 - Gümüşhane

Gümüshane

-Features:Gümüşhane has a rich historical background so there are many historical places, mosques, churches, castles. Ancient city of Satala in the modern village of Sadak was the most important military camp of the ancient Roman Empire in the east. This place was ruled by the Hittites, Assyrians,...

 -Gümüşhane Province

Gümüshane Province

Gümüşhane Province is a province in northern Turkey, bordering Bayburt to the east, Trabzon to the north, Giresun and Erzincan to the west. It covers an area of 6,575 km² and has a population of 129,618 in 2010. The population was 186,953 in 2000. The name Gümüşhane means silver house...

 - Güneyyurt

Güneyyurt

- Geography :Güneyyurt is by the Göksu River valley on Toros Mountains at . It is a part of Ermenek district which in turn is a part of Karaman Province. Distance to Ermenek is and to Karaman is The population is 5181 as of 2010.- History :...

 - Günseli Başar

Günseli Basar

Günseli Başar is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1952.-Biography:She was born on January 22, 1932 to an officer's family in Diyarbakır, where her father was stationed. However, her birth was registered some time later in Erzurum due to her father's transfer...

 - Güzelyayla

Güzelyayla

- Geography :Güzelyayla is a mountain town on the Toros Mountains . Highway distance to Mersin is approximatelly . The altitude of the town is between and . The coordinates are . The winter population is 2515 as of 2010.- History :...

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Hacı İlbey

Hacı İlbey

Hacı İlbey or Hadji Ilbeg was an Ottoman commander during the early years of the empire.- Early years :Probably he was born around 1305 in Balıkesir, west Anatolia . He was a commander of the Beylik of Karasi, a principality situated at the Asiatic coast of the Dardanelles strait...

 - Hacı Ömer Sabancı

Haci Ömer Sabanci

Hacı Ömer Sabancı was a Turkish entrepreneur, who founded a number of companies, which later formed the second largest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey, the Sabancı Holding. He initiated the establishment of a dynasty of Turkey's wealthiest businesspeople.He was born in Akçakaya, a...

 - Hacı Sabancı

Haci Sabanci

Hacı Sabancı , a member of the second generation of the renowned Sabancı family, was a Turkish businessman and philanthropist....

 - Hafız Post

Hafız Post

Hafız Post was a composer and performer of Turkish music during Ottoman Empire era in İstanbul.- Biography :...

 - Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey...

 - Hakan Balta

Hakan Balta

Hakan Kadir Balta is a German-born Turkish footballer. He currently plays as a defender for Galatasaray.-Club career:...

 - Hakan Şükür

Hakan Sükür

Hakan Şükür is a retired Turkish footballer who played as a striker. He spent the majority of his professional career with Galatasaray, being a three-time Gol Kralı , representing the club in three different spells and winning a total of 14 major titles.Şükür represented Turkey a...

 - Hakkâri

Hakkari

Hakkâri , is a city and the capital of the Hakkâri Province of Turkey. The name Hakkâri is derived from the Syriac word, Akkare, meaning farmers...

 - Hakkâri Province

Hakkari Province

Hakkâri Province is a province in the south east corner of Turkey. The administrative centre is located in the city of Hakkâri . The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and has a population of 251,302 . The province had a population of 236,581 in 2000.The province was created in 1936 out of...

 - Halil Mete Soner

Halil Mete Soner

Halil Mete Soner is a Turkish mathematician born in Ankara.After graduating from the Ankara Science High School , he started his university education at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, later transferred to Boğaziçi University, Istanbul in 1977. He received a B.Sc...

 - Halil Mutlu

Halil Mutlu

Halil Mutlu is a professional Turkish weightlifter with several World and Olympic championships. Mutlu is one of the four weightlifters achieving three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games...

 - Halkçı Parti - Halkevleri

Halkevleri

Halkevleri is a name of a former Turkish state sponsored project, between 1932-1951.- Background :Turkish Republic was proclaimed in 1923 after a serial of wars involving the Ottoman Empire. The wars were very costly. The human loss was great, especially among the intellectuals. Also, the most...

 - Hami Mandıralı

Hami Mandirali

Hami Mandıralı was a Turkish footballer. He played for Trabzonspor nearly all of his career, and is one of the most famous and talented Turkish footballers of all time.-Career:...

 - Hammam

Hammam

A Turkish bath is the Turkish variant of a steam bath, sauna or Russian Bath, distinguished by a focus on water, as distinct from ambient steam....

 - Hamza Yerlikaya

Hamza Yerlikaya

Hamza Yerlikaya is a Turkish Graeco-Roman style wrestler. He is a two-time Olympic champion, three-time World Champion , and the only Turkish wrestler to ever become European champion eight times...

 - Harem (Istanbul neighbourhood)

Harem (Istanbul neighbourhood)

Harem is a neighbourhood in the Anatolian part of Istanbul, Turkey. Belonging to the Üsküdar district, it lies on the coast of the Sea of Marmara between the centres of Üsküdar and Kadıköy districts, next to Haydarpaşa Terminal....

 - Harem (household) - Hasan Celebi

Hasan Çelebi

Hasan Çelebi, , born 1937 in Erzurum, Turkey, is a world-renowned Turkish master of Arabic calligraphy.Çelebi has devoted his whole life to calligraphy, and has been described by Caryle Murphy of the Washington Post as one "of the most celebrated masters of classical Ottoman calligraphy style"...

 - Hasan Orbay

Hasan Orbay

Hasan Orbay is a Turkish archer.Orbay competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. In 2004 he was defeated in the first round of elimination, placed 34th overall.-References:...

 - Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other cabinet members.-Biography:...

 - Hatay

Hatay Province

Hatay Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast. It is bordered by Syria to the south and east and the Turkish provinces of Adana and Osmaniye to the north. The province is part of Çukurova, a geographical, economical and cultural region that covers the provinces of...

 - Hatt-i Sharif

Hatt-i Sharif

The Hatt-i Sharif of Gülhane or Tanzimât Fermânı was an 1839 proclamation by Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I that launched the Tanzimât period of reforms and reorganization....

 - Haydar Ergülen

Haydar Ergülen

Haydar Ergulen is one of the important poets of the recent generation in contemporary Turkish literature. Born in 1956 in Eskişehir, Türkeli, he graduated from the Sociology Department at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara.Among his published poetry books are: "Sokak Prensesi" , "Eskiden...

 - Haydarpaşa Terminal

Haydarpasa Terminal

The Haydarpaşa Terminal or Haydarpaşa Station is a major intercity rail station and transportation hub in Kadıköy, İstanbul. It is the busiest rail terminal in Turkey and the Middle East and one of the busiest in Eastern Europe. The terminal also has connections to İETT bus and ferry service. The...

 - Hayreddin Barbarossa - Hedo Türkoğlu - Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha

Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha

Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha was an Ottoman grand vizier . His father Nuh was a Venetian convert who worked in İstanbul as a doctor and his mother Safiye was a Turk...

 - Helvadere

Helvadere

- Geography :Helvadere is on the western slopes of Mount Hasan at about . It is south of Aksaray. The midtown coordinates are . The population is 2877 as of 2009 - History :...

 - Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi

Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi

Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator of 17th-century Constantinople , purported to have achieved sustained unpowered flight.-Alleged flight:...

 - Hierapolis

Hierapolis

Hierapolis was the ancient Greco-Roman city which sat on top of hot springs located in south western Turkey near Denizli....

 - Hilmi Özkök

Hilmi Özkök

General Hilmi Özkök was the 24th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces. He took up that post on August 28, 2002 and served until August 30, 2006 when he retired and was succeeded by General Yaşar Büyükanıt.Özkök has expressed support for Turkey's alignment with the European Union,...

 - Hippodrome of Constantinople

Hippodrome of Constantinople

The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with only a few fragments of the original structure surviving...

 - Historic states represented in Turkish presidential seal

Historic states represented in Turkish presidential seal

16 Great Turkish Empires is a historical discourse that was created in 1969 to explain the meaning of 16 stars of the presidential seal of Turkey. And it was inaugurated in 1985 with the presidential seal today...

 - History of the Mediterranean region

History of the Mediterranean region

The history of the Mediterranean region is the history of the interaction of the cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea —the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples...

 - History of Turkey

History of Turkey

The history of the Turks begins with the migration of Oghuz Turks into Anatolia in the context of the larger Turkic expansion, forming the Seljuq Empire in the 11th century. After the Seljuq victory over forces of the Byzantine Empire in 1071 at the Battle of Manzikert, the process was accelerated...

 - Hittites

Hittites

The Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...

 - Holidays in Turkey - Horon - Human chain against nuclear plant in Turkey

Human chain against nuclear plant in Turkey

Human chain against nuclear plant in Turkey was the name of a peaceful protest.Turkey plans to build the first nuclear plant in Akkuyu location in Mersin Province about west of Mersin. The contract has been signed and the preliminary works at the construction site have already been started. But...

 - Human rights in Turkey

Human rights in Turkey

Human rights in Turkey are theoretically protected by a variety of international law treaties, which take precedence over domestic legislation, according to Article 90 of the 1982 Constitution....

 - Huns

Huns

The Huns were a group of nomadic people who, appearing from east of the Volga River, migrated into Europe c. AD 370 and established the vast Hunnic Empire there. Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns,...

 - Huzurkent

Huzurkent

- Geography :Huzurkent is situated at on the Çukurova plains and about north of the Mediterranean coast. The town has a sandy beach at the coast. It is on the highway connecting Mersin to Tarsus. Distance to Tarsus is and to Mersin is...

 - Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu

Hüseyin Kivrikoglu

Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu is a Turkish general who was the Commander of the Turkish Armed Forces and on August 30, 1998, became Chief of the Turkish General Staff for a four-year term.-Biography:...

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Iğdır

Igdir

Iğdır is the capital of Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey, and borders Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. The border with Armenia is formed by the Aras River...

 - Iğdır Province

Igdir Province

Iğdır Province is a province in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan , and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars to the northwest and Ağrı to the west and south...

 - Incirlik

Incirlik

İncirlik is a town in the Sarıçam district of Adana Province with a population of 11,555. Formerly a municipality, it was incorporated into Sarıçam Municipality in 2008...

 - Incirlik Air Base

Incirlik Air Base

The Incirlik Air Base is located in İncirlik, five miles east of Adana, Turkey's fifth largest city, and from the Mediterranean Sea.The U.S...

 - Indian Ocean campaigns

Indian Ocean campaigns

The Ottoman naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean were a series of Ottoman amphibious operations in the Indian Ocean in the 16th century...

- International Security Assistance Force

International Security Assistance Force

The International Security Assistance Force is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement...

 - Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 - Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 - Isik University

Isik University

Işık University is a private university located in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is a part of the Feyziye Schools Foundation which was established in Thessaloniki in 1885.-History:...

 - Iskender kebap

Iskender kebap

İskender kebab is one of the most famous meat foods of northwestern Turkey and takes its name from its inventor, İskender Efendi , who lived in Bursa in the late 19th century...

 - Islam in Turkey

Islam in Turkey

The region secacomprising modern Turkey has a long and rich Islamic tradition stretching back to the dawn of the Seljuk period and Ottoman Empire. The country has many historical mosques present throughout the cities and towns, including many in Istanbul...

 - Ismail Acar

Ismail Acar

İsmail Acar is a Turkish painter. He graduated with honors in 1991 from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1993, Acar received his Master of Arts degree in "Technology and Art", as well as in "Postmodernism"....

 - Ismail Bilen

Ismail Bilen

İsmail Bilen was a Turkish politician of Hemshinli origin...

 - Ismail Enver

Ismail Enver

Enver Pasha or Ismail Enver Pasha , title was changed with his military ranks such as Enver Efendi , Enver Bey , Enver Pasha, higher than Mirliva) was an Ottoman military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution...

 - Isparta

Isparta

Isparta is a city in western Turkey and the provincial capital of the Isparta Province. The city's population is 222,556 and elevation from sea level is 1035 m. Another name of the city is "City of Roses"....

 - Isparta Province

Isparta Province

Isparta Province is a province in southwestern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Afyon to the northwest, Burdur to the southwest, Antalya to the south, and Konya to the east. It has an area of 8,993 km² and a population of 448,298 up from 434,771...

 - Istanbul International Jazz Festival

Istanbul International Jazz Festival

The Istanbul International Jazz Festival, formerly Istanbul Festival, is a cultural event held every July in Istanbul, Turkey. It offers a selection of jazz music performances with the participations of famous artists from all over the world. The festival was first held in 1986 and is organized by...

 - Istanbul International Music Festival

Istanbul International Music Festival

The Istanbul International Music Festival, formerly Istanbul Festival, is a cultural event held every June and July in Istanbul, Turkey. It offers a selection of European classical music, ballet, opera and traditional music performances with the participations of famous artists from all over the...

 - Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters’ Association

Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters’ Association

The Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters’ Association is a professional body which deals with all of the export activities at the export density regions of Istanbul. It is affiliated with the Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade of the office of the Prime Minister of Turkey...

 - Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey...

 - Istanbul University

Istanbul University

Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...

 - Istanbulspor AS

Istanbulspor AS

İstanbulspor AŞ is a Turkish football and sports club, founded by Istanbul High School students in 1926. It had an unsuccessful season in 2004-2005 and were relegated from the Turkcell Super League to Bank Asya 1. Lig. It is the fourth most famous and well-developed professional football club from...

 - Istiklal Avenue

Istiklal Avenue

İstiklal Avenue or Istiklal Street is one of the most famous avenues in Istanbul, Turkey, visited by nearly 3 million people in a single day over the course of weekends...

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Ibrahim I

Ibrahim I

Ibrahim I was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648. He was born in Istanbul the son of Ahmed I by Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Anastasia...

 - İbrahim II of Karaman

İbrahim II of Karaman

-Background:During the post-Seljuks era in the second half of the middle ages, numerous Turkmen principalities which are collectively known as Anatolian beyliks emerged in Anatolia. Initially Karamanids centered around the modern provinces of Karaman and Konya, was the most important power in...

 - İbrahim Kutluay - İbrahim Pasha (Pargalı)

Pargali Ibrahim Pasha

Pargali Ibrahim Pasha , also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha , Makbul Ibrahim Pasha , and referred to him as Maktul Ibrahim Pasha after his murder in the Topkapı Palace, was the first Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire appointed by Suleiman the Magnificent...

 - İbrahim Pasha (Nevşehirli)

Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha

Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha served as Grand Vizier for Sultan Ahmed III of the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip period. He was also the head of a ruling family which had great influence in the court of Ahmed III...

 - İbrahim Tatlises

Ibrahim Tatlises

-References:...

 - İdil Biret

Idil Biret

İdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.-Education:...

- İhsan Sabancı

Ihsan Sabanci

İhsan Sabancı , a second-generation member of the renowned Sabancı family, was a Turkish businessman. He was born in 1931 in the village of Akçakaya in Kayseri Province as the first of six sons of Hacı Ömer Sabancı and Sadıka...

 - İlkadım

İlkadım

İlkadım is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Samsun, Turkey. Samsun is one of 16 Metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders. Now in Samsun there are four intracity municipalities in addition of Greater Samsun municipality.The mayor is...

 - İlhan Berk

Ilhan Berk

İlhan Berk was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry and was very influential among Turkish literary circles.-Biography:Berk was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1918 and received a teacher's training in Balıkesir...

 - İncili Çavuş

İncili Çavuş

İncili Çavuş Çavuş means: 1. a title given to the officials who engaged in various services provided of in the organizations of the Ottoman State, 2. a rank of officers who were responsible for transmitting down orders of senior commanders subordinate commanders in the Ottoman Army. in BSTS /...

 - İnlice

İnlice

- Geography :İnlice is in Meram district Inlice is at to the south west of Konya at a distance of . The altitude of the town is . The population is 1038 as of 2009.- Economy :...

 - İnönü Stadium - İskenderun

Iskenderun

İskenderun is a city and urban district in the province of Hatay on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. The current mayor is Yusuf Hamit Civelek .-Names:...

 - İsmail Cem

Ismail Cem

İsmail Cem İpekçi was a Turkish politician, journalist, statesman and former minister of foreign affairs.- Background :...

 - İsmet İnönü

Ismet Inönü

Mustafa İsmet İnönü was a Turkish Army General, Prime Minister and the second President of Turkey. In 1938, the Republican People's Party gave him the title of "Milli Şef" .-Family and early life:...

 - İsmet Özel

Ismet Özel

İsmet Özel is a Turkish poet and scholar.-Early years:Özel is the sixth child of a police officer from Söke. He attended his primary and secondary school in Kastamonu, Çankırı and Ankara...

 - İstanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 - İstanbul Province

Istanbul Province

Istanbul Province is a province located in north-west Turkey. It has an area of 5,196 km² and a population of 13,255,685. The population was 10,018,735 in 2000. It is surrounded by the provinces of Tekirdağ to the west, Kocaeli to the east, the Black Sea to the northern part and the Sea of...

 - İstiklâl Marşı

Istiklâl Marsi

The İstiklâl Marşı is the National Anthem of Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, officially adopted on 12 March 1921 - two and a half years before the 29 October 1923 establishment of the Republic of Turkey, both as a motivational musical saga for the troops fighting in the Turkish War...

 - İvaz Mehmet Pasha

İvaz Mehmet Pasha

İvaz Mehmed Pasha or Hacı İvaz Mehmed Pasha was an 18th-century Ottoman grand vizier .- Early life :His family was among the group of families known as Evlad'ı Fatihan, i.e., descendants of the early Turkish fighters in Rumeli, the European portion of the empire. Upon the recommendation of his...

 - İzmir

Izmir

Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

 - İzmir European Jazz Festival

Izmir European Jazz Festival

The İzmir European Jazz Festival, is a cultural event held in the first half of every March in İzmir, Turkey. It offers a selection of jazz music performances with the participations of renowned artists and music groups from Europe and Turkey. The festival was first held in 1994 and is organized...

 - İzmir Province

Izmir Province

İzmir Province is a province of Turkey in western Anatolia on the Aegean coast, whose capital is the city of İzmir. On the west it is surrounded by the Aegean sea, and it encloses the Gulf of İzmir. Its area is 11,973 km.2, population 3.948.848 . The population was 3,370,866 in 2000...

 - İzmit

Izmit

İzmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. The city center has a population of 294.875...

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Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - Janet Akyüz Mattei

Janet Akyüz Mattei

Janet Akyüz Mattei was a Turkish American astronomer, educated in both Turkey and the United States and with a U.S. career, who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers from 1973 to 2004....

 - Janissary

Janissary

The Janissaries were infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops and bodyguards...

 - Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

The Justice and Development Party , abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right political party in Turkey. The party is the largest in Turkey, with 327 members of parliament...

 - Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide

Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide

Justice Commandos against Armenian Genocide was a secret military organization that operated in various western nations from 1975 to 1987...

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Kabakçı Mustafa

Kabakçı Mustafa

Kabakçı Mustafa was a rebel leader who caused the delay of Ottoman reformation in the early 19th century.-Yamaks and Kabakçı:Yamaks were a special class of soldiers who were responsible in defending Bosphorous against Cossack pirates from Ukraine. Unlike janissaries they were from Black Sea Region...

 - Kackar - Kaç Kaç - Kahramanmaraş

Kahramanmaras

-Industry:Kahramanmaraş's industry is mainly based on textile and ice cream. Kahramanmaraş is one of the biggest textile industry cities of Turkey. Companies like Kipaş, İskur, Arsan and Bozkurt are one of the richest companies in the city...

 - Kahramanmaraş Province

Kahramanmaras Province

Kahramanmaraş is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is Kahramanmaraş city, the traffic code is 46.-Districts:Kahramanmaraş province is divided into 10 districts :*Afşin*Andırın*Çağlayancerit*Ekinözü*Elbistan*Göksun*Kahramanmaraş...

 - Kaledran - Kanlıdivane

Kanlıdivane

Kanlıdivane is an ancient city situated around a big sinkhole in Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :Kanlıdivane is in the rural area of Erdemli district, which is a part of Mersin Province at . It is to Erdemli and to Mersin. Its altitude is approximatelly...

 - Kapadokya - Kara Mustafa

Kara Mustafa

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman military leader and grand vizier who was a central character in the empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central Europe and Eastern Europe.-His Name:...

 -Karabucak Forest

Karabucak Forest

- Geography :The forest is at the south of Tarsus city in Mersin Province. The center of the forest is at about . The distance to Tarsus is and to Mersin is . There are two sections in the forest...

 - Karaburun Peninsula

Karaburun Peninsula, Izmir

Karaburun Peninsula is a peninsula in the extreme western end of Turkey, one of the largest in the country. The peninsula carries the same name as the town and administrative center, Karaburun, located at a pivotal point in its extremity. It is located west of the city of İzmir, comprised wholly...

 - Karabük

Karabük

-Economy:Karabük has its own resources of dolomite and limestone, while coal and manganese is brought from Zonguldak and iron ore from Divriği. This allows a varied, yet basic industry in Karabük, including a coking plant, blast furnaces, a foundry and tube works. There are also chemical plants...

 - Karabük Province

Karabük Province

Karabük Province is a province in northern central Turkey with a total population of 227,610 .The main city is Karabük which is located about 200 km north of Ankara and about 100 km south of the Black Sea coast...

 - Karadağ

Karadag, Karaman

- Geography :The crater of the volcano which is now a lava plain, is approximatelly north of Karaman at with an altitude of . The peak of the mountain is east of this plain and its altitude is . - Geography :The crater of the volcano which is now a lava plain, is approximatelly north of...

 - Karakız Lake

Karakız Lake

- Geography :The lake was built in 1998. It is on Toros Mountains in the rural area of Erdemli district at . Its main water source is Karakız River. It is at the east of the village Hacıalanı which actually is a yayla . Distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is . The bird’s flight distance to...

 - Karaman

Karaman

Karaman is a town in south central Turkey, located north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province. According to 2000 census, the population of the province is 231 872 of which 132,064 live in the town of Karaman. The district covers an area...

 - Karaman Province

Karaman Province

Karaman Province is a province of central Turkey. It has an area of 9,163 km². It has a population of 232,633 . According to the 2000 census the population was 243,210. Population density is 27.54 people/km². The traffic code is 70. The capital is the city of Karaman...

 - Kargıpınarı

Kargıpınarı

Kargıpınarı is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey- Geography :Kargıpınarı is situated on the Mersin Antalya highway at . It is a part of Erdemli district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. The town is east of Erdemli and west of Mersin. The population is 11865 - Etymology and History...

 - Kars

Kars

Kars is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. The population of the city is 73,826 as of 2010.-Etymology:As Chorzene, the town appears in Roman historiography as part of ancient Armenia...

 - Kars Province

Kars Province

Kars Province is a province of Turkey, located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its border with the Republic of Armenia.The provinces of Ardahan and Iğdır were until the 1990s part of Kars Province.-History:...

 - Karum

Karum (trade post)

Karum is the name given to ancient Assyrian trade posts,in Anatolia, Turkey from 20th to 18th centuries BC.- Assyrian settlements :In the second millennium Anatolia was under the sovereignty of Hatti and later Hittite city states. Beginning by 1960 BC, Assyrian merchants established small colonial...

 - Kastamonu

Kastamonu

Kastamonu is the capital district of the Kastamonu Province, Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 102,059 of which 64,606 live in the urban center of Kastamonu. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an elevation of...

 - Kastamonu Province

Kastamonu Province

Kastamonu Province is one of the provinces of Turkey, in the Black Sea region, to the north of the country. It is surrounded by Sinop to the east, Bartın and Karabük to the west, Çankırı to the south, Çorum to the south east and the Black Sea to the north....

 - Kayahan

Kayahan

Kayahan is a Turkish pop singer and composer, one of the consistently best-selling musicians in Turkey. He writes all of his own material and has released more than eight best-selling albums during a career spanning 30 years.-Biography:Kayahan was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1949...

 - Kayseri

Kayseri

Kayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and...

 - Kayseri Province

Kayseri Province

The Kayseri Province , in central Turkey, is an area that has been linked with mythological stories as well as important figures in Turkish history. It is located in Anatolia, and surrounded by the Mount Erciyes, the Mount Hasan and the Mount Ali...

 - Kazanlı

Kazanlı

-Geography:Kazanlı is approximatelly east of Mersin center at . It is a Mediterranean coastal town. East of the town, there are small settlements surrounded by fields. Towards west and north of the town there are industrial plants and some quarters of Mersin....

 - Kemal Atatürk - Kemal Derviş

Kemal Dervis

Kemal Derviş is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...

 - Kemal Sunal

Kemal Sunal

Kemal Sunal was a master of comedy in the Turkish history of cinema. Famed for his parts as "İnek Şaban", "Tosun Paşa", "Kibar Feyzo", "Süt Kardeşler"...

 - Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha

Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha

Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha was a 17th century Ottoman military officer and statesman. He served as Kapudan Pasha and as Grand Vizier.- Early life :...

 - Kemerhisar

Kemerhisar

- Geography :Kemerhisar at is a part of Bor district of Niğde Province. Distance to Bor is and to Niğde is . It is only west of Bahçeli another town of Niğde. The population is 5,449 as of 2010.- History :...

 - Kepez

Kepez, Antalya

Kepez is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Antalya, Turkey. Antalya is one of the 16 metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders. In Antalya there are five intracity municipalities in addition of Greater Antalya municipality.- Geography...

 - Kenan Evren

Kenan Evren

Ahmet Kenan Evren was the seventh President of Turkey; a post he assumed by leading the 1980 military coup. He was also the last president to be born in the Ottoman Empire.- Biography :...

 - Kılbasan

Kılbasan

- Geography :Kılbasan is at the north of Karaman and the highway distance to Karaman is . The midtown is at . The town is in the even plain with an altitude of . But the extinct volcano Karadağ is at the north west of the town...

 - Kırıkkale

Kirikkale

Kırıkkale is the capital of the Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located 80 km east of Ankara. According to the 2000 census, the population of the province is 280,834, of which 192,705 live in the city of Kırıkkale...

 - Kırıkkale Province

Kirikkale Province

Kırıkkale Province is a province of Turkey. It is located on the crossroads of major highways east of Ankara leading east to the Black Sea region. With its rapid population growth it has become an industrial center. The provincial capital is Kırıkkale....

 - Kırklareli

Kirklareli

Kırklareli is the capital of Kırklareli Province in Eastern Thrace, on the European part of Turkey. The province has a coastline on the Black Sea. There is a Jewish community.-Name:It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name...

 - Kırklareli Province

Kirklareli Province

Kırklareli Province is a province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a 180 kilometers long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the province of Tekirdağ to the south and province of Istanbul to the...

 - Kırşehir

Kirsehir

Kırşehir, formerly Macissus and Justinianopolis, is a city in Turkey. It is the capital district of the Kırşehir Province. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 121,947 of which 105,826 live in the city of Kırşehir.-History:The history of Kırşehir dates back to the Hittites...

 - Kırşehir Province

Kirsehir Province

Kırşehir Province is located in central Turkey, forming part of the central Anatolian region. It stands on the North Anatolian Fault, and is currently in an earthquake warning zone. The average elevation is approximately 985 meters above sea level. The provincial capital is Kırşehir.It became a...

 - Kışlak

Kışlak

- Geography :Kışlak is a part of Yayladağı district of Hatay Province at . Distance to Yayladağı is and to Antakya is The population is 1763 as of 2010.- History :...

 - Kızılay Emek Business Center

Kızılay Emek Business Center

Kızılay Emek Business Center is a 22 storey building in Ankara, Turkey. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest building in Ankara.- Construction :...

 - Kızıldağ Pass

Kızıldağ Pass

Kızıldağ Pass is the highest-altitude pass in TurkeyThe pass is on the main highway connecting East Anatolia to Central Anatolia at the borderline between the provinces Sivas and Erzincan. With the coordinates , the distance to Sivas is and to Erzincan is . . The altitute is...

 - Kızkalesi

Kızkalesi

Kızkalesi is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey. The town, known in Antiquity as Corycus or Korykos , is named after the ancient castle built on a small island just facing the town.- Geography :...

 - Kız Kulesi - Kilij Arslan I

Kilij Arslan I

Kilij Arslan was the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm from 1092 until his death in 1107. He ruled the Sultanate during the time of the First Crusade and thus faced the brunt of the entire attack...

 - Kilij Arslan II

Kilij Arslan II

Kilij Arslan II was a Seljuk Sultan of Rûm from 1156 until his death in 1192.As Arnold of Lübeck reports in his Chronica Slavorum, he was present at the meeting of Henry the Lion with Kilij-Arslan during the former's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1172...

 - Kilis

Kilis

Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey on the border with Syria and capital of Kilis Province.- History and Population :Kilis was part of the vilayet of Aleppo of the Ottoman Empire until the First World War when it was given to Turkey and had a mixed population of Circassians, Turkomans and Arabs...

  - Kilis Province

Kilis Province

Kilis Province is a province in south-central Turkey. It used to be the southern part of the province of Gaziantep and was formed in 1994. The town of Kilis is home to around 67% of the inhabitants of the province, the other towns and villages are very small.-History:There is evidence of human...

 - Kocaeli Peninsula

Kocaeli Peninsula

- Geography :The peninsula is at the north west corner of Anatolia. The length toward west is and the average width is about . It is bordered by the Black Sea to the north, Sea of Marmara to the south and the strait of Bosphorus to the west. The geographers consider it to be a part of Kocaeli...

 - Kocaeli Province

Kocaeli Province

Kocaeli Province is a province of Turkey. Its capital is İzmit, which is sometimes referred to as Kocaeli itself. The largest town in the province is now Gebze. The traffic code is 41. The province is located at the easternmost end of the Marmara Sea, especially on the Gulf of İzmit. Because of...

 - Koca Ragıp Pasha

Koca Ragıp Pasha

Koca Ragıp Pasha, or more formally Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pasha was an Ottoman grand vizier. He is also known as a good poet.-Early years:...

 - Kocahasanlı

Kocahasanlı

- Geography :Kocahasanlı is a part of Erdemli district of Mersin Province. The distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is The population is 5808 as of 2010.- People and History :...

 - Koçi Bey

Koçi Bey

Koçi Bey was a high-ranking Ottoman bureaucrat who lived in the first half of the 17th century.He was an ethnic Albanian, born in Korçë in eastern Albania. Within the scope of the devshirme system, he studied in the Enderun in Istanbul...

 - Kolsuz Pass

Kolsuz Pass

Kolsuz is a mountain pass in Niğde Province, TurkeyKolsuz is situated next to a village with the same name on the highway connecting Niğde to the Mediterranean coast...

 - Konya

Konya

Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...

 - Konya Province

Konya Province

Konya Province is a province of Turkey located in central Anatolia. The provincial capital is the city of Konya. It is the largest province by area of Turkey.-Districts:...

 - Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

 - Köçek

Köçek

The köçek phenomenon is one of the significant features of Ottoman Empire culture...

 - Köseçobanlı

Köseçobanlı

-Geography:The town is in rural area of Gülnar district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. The coordinates of the midtown can be given as . The highway distance to Gülnar is and to Mersin is...

 - Kul Tigin

Kul Tigin

Kul Tigin Kul Tigin Kul Tigin (Old Turkic:, Kultegin, (闕特勒/阙特勤, Pinyin: quètèqín, Wade-Giles: chüeh-t'e-ch'in, ? - 575 AD) was a general of the Second Turkic Kaganate. He was a second son of Ilterish Shad and the younger brother of Bilge Kagan....

 - Kumkuyu

Kumkuyu

-Geography:Kumkuyu is a Mediterranean coastal town in the rural area of Erdemli district which is a part of Mersin Province. It is on the main highway . The distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is . The coordinates are . The population is 2887 as of 2010.-History:The vicinity of the town had been...

 - Kurdistan Workers Party

Kurdistan Workers Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party , commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK or KONGRA-GEL , is a Kurdish organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights...

 - Kuskan

Kuskan

- Geography :Kuskan is situated at . It is a part of Gülnar district of Mersin Province. It a mountain town with an altitude of and it is quite far from the main highways. The distance to selected localities are, to Gülnar, to Mut and to Mersin. The population is 2487 as of 2010- Economy...

 - Kütahya

Kütahya

Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 212,444 inhabitants , lying on the Porsuk river, at 969 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Kütahya Province, inhabited by some 517 804 people...

 - Kütahya Province

Kütahya Province

Kütahya Province is a province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is 11,889 km² in size, and the population is 590,496 . In 1990, Kütahya had a population of 578,020.-Districts:...

 - Kutlug Ataman

Kutlug Ataman

Kutluğ Ataman is a filmmaker and contemporary artist. He lives in Istanbul.-Life and career:Kutluğ Ataman received his school education in Istanbul before doing his university studies in the US. His interest in film started an early age, and led him to do film studies at UCLA where he graduated...

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Laal Pasha Mosque

Laal Pasha Mosque

Laal Pasha Mosque is a Medieval mosque in Mut in Mersin Province, Turkey. - History :...

 - Ladino language - Lagari Hasan Çelebi

Lagari Hasan Çelebi

Lagari Hasan Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator who, according to an account written by Evliya Çelebi, made a successful manned rocket flight.-Account:...

 - Lake Eber

Lake Eber

- Geography :The lake is between the district centers of Çay, Bolvadin and Sultandağı of Afyon Province. The mid point is at about . The altitude of the water surface with respect to sea level is . The surface area fluctuates and at times it may be exceed . In past the maximum recorded depth was .-...

 - Lake Eymir

Lake Eymir

Lake Eymir is a small lake in Ankara Province, Turkey. According to notes of Seyyah Kandemir published by the governate of Ankara in 1932, the lake was named after a Turkmen tribe named Eymür.- Geography :...

 - Lake Mogan

Lake Mogan

Lake Mogan is a small lake in Ankara Province, Turkey.- Geography :The lake is south of the Ankara city center within the intracity district of Gölbaşı at about . The eastern shore lies along the highway which traverses Turkey from north to south...

 - Lake Van

Lake Van

Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country in Van district. It is a saline and soda lake, receiving water from numerous small streams that descend from the surrounding mountains. Lake Van is one of the world's largest endorheic lakes . The original outlet from...

 - Lala - Lamas Aqueduct

Lamas Aqueduct

Lamas Aqueduct is a Roman aqueduct in Mersin Province, Turkey- Geography :The source of the watercourse is Limonlu River also known as Lamas River at an altitude of approximatelly . It is directed to south west in parallel to Mediterranean coast. The average distance between the coast and the...

 - Landing at Anzac Cove

Landing at Anzac Cove

The landing at Anzac Cove was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian and New Zealand forces on 25 April 1915. The landing, north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast of the Peninsula, was made by soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and was the first...

 - Landing at Cape Helles

Landing at Cape Helles

The landing at Cape Helles was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on April 25, 1915 during the First World War. Helles, at the foot of the peninsula, was the main landing area. With the support of the guns of the Royal Navy, a British division...

 - Landing at Suvla Bay

Landing at Suvla Bay

The landing at Suvla Bay was an amphibious landing made at Suvla on the Aegean coast of Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire as part of the August Offensive, the final British attempt to break the deadlock of the Battle of Gallipoli...

 - Latife Uşaklıgil

Latife Usakligil

Latife Uşakizâde was Mustafa Kemal Pasha's wife between 1923 and 1925...

 - Letters from Turkey

Letters from Turkey

Letters from Turkey are actually memoirs written by Europeans who had been to Ottoman Empire. Usually, the series of letters had been collected and published later on with various titles. But they are popularly known as Letters from Turkey or Turkish letters. Below is the summary of these.-...

 - Letters from Turkey (Moltke)

Letters from Turkey (Moltke)

Letters on Conditions and Events in Turkey in the Years 1835-1839 or Letters from Turkey for short, is the name given to the series of letters written by Helmuth von Moltke during his stay in the Ottoman Empire between 1835-1839 .- Background :...

 - Leyla Gencer

Leyla Gencer

Leyla Gencer, or Ayşe Leyla Çeyrekgil was a world-renowned Turkish operatic soprano.Known as "La Diva Turca" and "La Regina" in the opera world, Gencer was a notable bel canto soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire...

 - LGBT rights in Turkey - Liberal Democrat Party

Liberal Democrat Party (Turkey)

Liberal Democrat Party was a former political party in Turkey There were three parties in the parliament during 1983-1987 term. The smallest of them was Nationalist Democracy Party and according to most analysts, it was further losing support. Consequently, during the congress held on 13 July...

 - Liberalism in Turkey

Liberalism in Turkey

This article gives an overview of liberalism in Turkey. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ denotes another party in that scheme...

 - Liberty Party

Liberty Party (Turkey)

- Background :Democrat Party won the 1950 elections and ended the one party era of Turkey. DP, being a moderately right wing party had promised a freer press and wider scope of basic liberties during the election campaign....

 - Lira

Lira

Lira is the name of the monetary unit of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino and the Vatican City and Israel. The term originates from the value of a Troy pound of high purity silver. The libra was the basis of the monetary system of the Roman Empire...

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Lutfi Pasha

Lutfi Pasha was an Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier.-Life:As a devshirme youth, he entered Bayazid II's harem-i hass, where he received a thorough education in the Islamic sciences...

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Milli Emniyet Hizmeti - Mahir Cagri

Mahir Çagri

Mahir Çağrı became an Internet celebrity in 1999. His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion, travel, and women was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies, one featured on Fox's MadTV...

 - Mahmud I

Mahmud I

Mahmud I , called the Hunchback was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754.-Biography:...

 - Mahmud II

Mahmud II

Mahmud II was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. He was born in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, the son of Sultan Abdulhamid I...

 - Mahmud of Ghazni

Mahmud of Ghazni

Mahmud of Ghazni , actually ', was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid dynasty who ruled from 997 until his death in 1030 in the eastern Iranian lands. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazni into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire which covered most of today's Iran,...

 - Mahmut of Kashgar - Malatya

Malatya

Malatya ) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of its eponymous province.-Overview:The city site has been occupied for thousands of years. The Assyrians called the city Meliddu. Following Roman expansion into the east, the city was renamed in Latin as Melitene...

 - Malatya Province

Malatya Province

Malatya Province is a province of Turkey. It is part of a larger mountainous area. The capital of the province is Malatya , which has many residents. Malatya is famous for its apricots. The area of Malatya province is 12,313 km². Malatya Province has 740,643 inhabitants. The population was...

 - Malik Shah I

Malik Shah I

Jalāl al-Dawlah Malik-shāh was born in 1055, succeeded Alp Arslan as the Seljuq Sultan in 1072, and reigned until his death in 1092....

 - Mamure Castle

Mamure Castle

Mamure Castle is a medieval castle in the Anamur district of Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :The castle is at the Mediterranean Sea side at about . It is on the D400 highway, east of Anamur and west of Mersin.- History :...

 - Manisa

Manisa

Manisa is a large city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province.Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of İzmir and by its fertile hinterland rich in...

 - Manisa Province

Manisa Province

Manisa Province is a province in western Turkey. Its neighboring provinces are İzmir to the west, Aydın to the south, Denizli to the south east, Uşak to the east, Kütahya to the north east, and Balıkesir to the north...

 - Mardin

Mardin

Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for its Arabic-like architecture, and for its strategic location on a rocky mountain overlooking the plains of northern Syria.-History:...

 - Mardin Province

Mardin Province

Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 744,606. The population was 835,173 in 2000. The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin...

 - Marmara University

Marmara University

Marmara University is a public university in Turkey. Situated in Istanbul, Marmara University has succeeded in becoming the second largest university in the whole country...

 - Medieval states in Anatolia

Medieval states in Anatolia

Anatolia is a big peninsula in West Asia and forms one of the two passages between Asia and Europe. All through history, many states both completely independent and vassal, were founded. Below is the list of states in Anatolia during middle ages....

 - Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 - Mehmed I

Mehmed I

Mehmed I Çelebi was a Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. He was one of the sons of Bayezid I and Valide Sultan Devlet Hatun Mehmed I Çelebi (Ottoman: چلبی محمد, Mehmed I or Mehmed Çelebi) (1382, Bursa – May 26, 1421, Edirne, Ottoman Empire) was a Sultan of the Ottoman Empire...

 - Mehmed II

Mehmed II

Mehmed II , was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from...

 - Mehmed III

Mehmed III

Mehmed III Adli was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.-Biography:...

 - Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV Modern Turkish Mehmet was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687...

 - Mehmed V

Mehmed V

Mehmed V Reshad was the 35th Ottoman Sultan. He was the son of Sultan Abdülmecid I. He was succeeded by his half-brother Mehmed VI.-Birth:...

 - Mehmed VI

Mehmed VI

Mehmet VI was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918 to 1922...

 - Mehmet II of Karaman

Mehmet II of Karaman

Mehmet II of Karaman, Mehmed Beg , Mehmed Beg II, also known as Nasir al-Din Mehmed Beg was the ruler of Karaman in what is now modern Turkey in the 15th century.- Karamanids :...

 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic - Mehmed Talat Pasha

Mehmed Talat Pasha

Talaat Pasha Talaat Pasha Talaat Pasha (also transliterated as Tala'at Pasha or Talat Pasha was one of the leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress that controlled the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.He was born in Edirne Vilayet. He was of Pomak descent...

 - Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Mehmet Âkif Ersoy was a Turkish poet, author, academic, member of parliament, and the poet of the Turkish National Anthem....

 - Mehmet Ali Ağca

Mehmet Ali Agca

Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison. After serving 19 years of imprisonment in Italy, he was deported to Turkey, where he served a...

 - Mehmet Fuat Köprülü

Mehmet Fuat Köprülü

Mehmet Fuat Köprülü , aka Köprülüzade, who traced his descent from the illustrious Köprülü family, was a Turkish politician and historian, known for his contributions to Ottoman history, Turkish folklore and language.-Biography:A founding member of the Democratic Party along with Celal Bayar, Adnan...

 - Mehmet Nadir

Mehmet Nadir

Mehmet Nadir was a Turkish mathematician and educationist- Early life :He was born in Sakız island then a part of the Ottoman Empire, to a poor family. He was adopted by a sea captain . He studied in the military high school in Bursa...

 - Mehmet Okur

Mehmet Okur

Mehmet Murat Okur is a Turkish professional basketball player who currently plays for Türk Telekom B.K.. He is also under contract with the Utah Jazz of the NBA, and can return to that team when the 2011 NBA lockout ends...

 - Mehmet Sabancı

Mehmet Sabanci

Mehmet Sabancı , a member in third generation of the renowned Sabancı family in Turkey, was a businessman.Mehmet was born on April 25, 1963 in Adana as the third child and the second son of Hacı Sabancı...

 - Mekteb i sultani - Melek Ahmet Pasha

Melek Ahmet Pasha

Melek Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman official and Grand Vizier during the stagnation of the empire.- Early years :He was of Abkhaz origin. According to one source his father was a sea captain named Pervane. During the reign of Murad IV, he was appointed as the governor of Diyarbakır...

 - Melih Kibar

Melih Kibar

Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer.-Biography:Born in Istanbul, he graduated from the German High School Istanbul and studied chemical engineering at Bosphorus University. He received a Master's degree from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.At the age of eight, Kibar enrolled at the...

 - Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

 - Mersin Congress and Exhibition Center

Mersin Congress and Exhibition Center

Mersin Congress and Exhibition Center is a congress center is Mersin, Turkey. It is situated at the north east corner of the Atatürk Park in Mersin. Constructed between 2005 and 2008, it is owned by Mersin municipality...

 - Mersin Feneri

Mersin Feneri

Mersin Feneri is located at the Mediterranean coast in the city of Mersin, Turkey.- Geography :Mersin lighthouse is within the Mersin urban fabric and is situated at the west of the mouth of Müftü River at . It is surrounded by walking tracks and on the west there is a group of restaurants. The...

 - Mersin Grand Mosque

Mersin Grand Mosque

Mersin Grand Mosque is a mosque in Mersin, Turkey. - The building :The mosque is in Akdeniz intracity district of Mersin . It is at the intersection of the main streets. Atatürk Park is to the south and business quarter of the city is to the north and west...

 - Mersin Halkevi

Mersin Halkevi

Mersin Halkevi is a building in Mersin, Turkey originally built within the scope of the project Halkevleri, but currently used as a cultural center and opera house.- History :...

 - Mersin Harbor

Mersin Harbor

Mersin Harbor is a seaport facility in Mersin, southern Turkey. As one of the largest harbors in the country, it is Turkey's main gateway to the Mediterranean Sea...

 - Mersin International Music Festival - Mersin Marina

Mersin Marina

Mersin Marina is a marina at the eastern Mediterranean Sea coast situated in Mersin, Turkey- Geography :The marina is in the Yenişehir district of Mersin, about west of Mersin Harbor.- History :...

 - Mersin Museum

Mersin Museum

Mersin Museum is the main museum of Mersin, Turkey. It is operated by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.- History :Mersin Province is full of ancient sites. Yumuktepe and Soli in Mersin city and Gözlükule in Tarsus are among these. But prior to the foundation Mersin Museum, the findings were...

 - Mersin Province

Mersin Province

The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...

 - Mersin Railway Station

Mersin Railway Station

The Mersin Railway Station is the main train station in the city of Mersin, Turkey. The station is located in the district of Akdeniz. The station is in use since 1886.- The railway :...

 - Mertim

Mertim

Mertim, an acronym for Mersin Ticaret Merkezi is the tallest building in Mersin, Turkey. It was the tallest building in Turkey between 1987 and 2000, until the completion of the İş Bankası Towers in Istanbul, and still remains the tallest building in the country outside of Istanbul...

 - Mesut Yılmaz

Mesut Yilmaz

Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz is the former leader of the Motherland Party and was the Turkish prime minister in the 1990s.Mesut Yılmaz was a rising star in the Motherland Party of Turgut Özal, representing the Black Sea province of Rize in the parliament and serving as tourism minister in Ozal's cabinet...

 - Metin Kacan

Metin Kaçan

Metin Kaçan is a Turkish author who is best known for his novels Ağır Roman , and Fındık Sekiz. Ağır Roman has been translated into German , and a movie , directed by Mustafa Altıoklar , was based on it...

 - Metin Oktay

Metin Oktay

Metin Oktay nicknamed the Uncrowned King by Galatasaray fans, was a legendary Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goalscorers in Turkey....

 - Metropolitan centers in Turkey

Metropolitan centers in Turkey

This is a list of Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey. There are 81 provinces in Turkey . Among the 81 provincial centers 16 of them are called metropolitan municipalities . Within city borders of the metropolitan municipalities, there are more than one district governorate. where each...

 -Mevlevi

Mevlevi

The Mevlevi Order, or the Mevlevilik or Mevleviye are a Sufi order founded in Konya by the followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, and theologian. They are also known as the Whirling Dervishes due to their famous practice of whirling as a form...

 - Meydancık Castle

Meydancık Castle

Meydancık Castle is the name of a castle ruin in Mersin Province, Turkey. The original name was Kirshu and the name of the ruin during Ottoman times was Beydili Kale- Geography :...

 - Mezitli

Mezitli

Mezitli is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Mersin, Turkey. Mersin is one of 16 metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders...

 - Miletus

Miletus

Miletus was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia , near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria...

 - Military of Cyprus - Milli Istihbarat Teskilati - Mimar Sinan - Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits

Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits

The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits was a 1936 agreement that gives Turkey control over the Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles and regulates military activity in the region. The Convention gives Turkey full control over the Straits and guarantees the free passage of...

 - Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat and Lesser Ararat .The Ararat massif is about in diameter...

 - Mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty

Mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty

The list below contains the mosques in modern-day Turkey that were commissioned by the members of Ottoman imperial family.- The table :In the table below the first column shows the name, the second column shows the location, the third column shows the commissioner, the fourth column shows the...

 - Mountains of Turkey - Muğdat Mosque

Muğdat Mosque

Muğdat Mosque is a large mosque in Mersin, Turkey. It is named after Miktat bin Esved, one of the early Muslims.- Geography :The mosque was built in 1980s in the Yenişehir intracity district of Mersin. Although the official name of the neighbourhood is Gazi, it is usually called Muğdat after the...

 - Muğla

Mugla

Muğla is a city in south-western Turkey. It is the center of the district the same name, as well as of Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey´s Aegean coast. Muğla center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a distance of about from the nearest seacoast in the Gulf of...

 - Muğla Province

Mugla Province

Muğla Province is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, are on the coast in Muğla....

 - Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha was a commander in the Ottoman army, who became Wāli, and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan...

 - Muhtar - Münir Nurettin Selçuk

Münir Nurettin Selçuk

Münir Nurettin Selçuk was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer. He was one of the most revered names in Turkish music.-Biography:...

 - Murat I - Murat II - Murat III - Murat IV - Murat V - Murat Rais

Murat Rais

Murat Reis the Elder was an Ottoman privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Navy. He is regarded as one of the most important Barbary corsairs.- Early career :...

 - Murat Ses

Murat Ses

Murat Ses is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements...

 - Murathan Mungan

Murathan Mungan

Murathan Mungan is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright and poet.- Biography :His family originates from Mardin. After receiving his BA degree from the Faculty of Letters and Drama department at Ankara University, he worked as a dramaturg before devoting all his time to write poetry,...

 - Musa Çelebi

Musa Çelebi

Musa Çelebi was an Ottoman prince and a co-ruler of the empire for three years during Ottoman Interregnum. - Background :...

 - Music of Turkey

Music of Turkey

The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and has many copies and references of Byzantine music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, Balkan music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences...

 - Mustafa I

Mustafa I

Mustafa I Deli , son of Mehmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623. His mother was Valide Sultan Handan Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Helena....

 - Mustafa II

Mustafa II

Mustafa II Ghazi was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703.-Life:...

 - Mustafa III

Mustafa III

Mustafa III was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III and was succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I . He was born in Edirne...

 - Mustafa IV

Mustafa IV

Mustafa IV was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808.-Biography:...

 - Mustafa Altioklar

Mustafa Altioklar

Mustafa Altıoklar is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1958. His childhood house overlooked a projection room, owned by the Board of Censors, where the members of the board were cutting the films...

 - Mustafa Çelebi

Mustafa Çelebi

Mustafa Çelebi, also called Düzmece Mustafa was an Ottoman prince who struggled for throne in the early years of the fifteenth century - Background :...

 - Mustafa Denizli

Mustafa Denizli

Mustafa Denizli is a former Turkish football player and coach. He has won the Turkish League title five times, all with the 'Istanbul Big Three' . He is currently the only manager in history to win the Turkish league with three different clubs...

 - Mustafa Sandal

Mustafa Sandal

Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Italian and French. He emerged in the early 1990s with the revival of Turkish pop music and is one of the most successful pop singers in Turkey with overall sales of 13 million copies...

 - Mustafa Suphi

Mustafa Suphi

Mustafa Suphi was a Turkish communist leader .- Early Years :Suphi was educated in Jerusalem, Damascus and Erzurum before attending Galatasaray High School. He studied political science in Paris, where he was also a correspondent of the Turkish newspaper Tanin...

 - Muzzy Izzet- Muş

Mus

-Computing:* Mus, a file extension used by Finale * MUS, the internal music format used in Doom -Three-letter acronyms:* Mitsubishi UFJ Securities * MUS, the NATO country code for Mauritius...

 - Muş Province

Mus Province

Muş Province is a province in eastern Turkey. It is 8,196 km² in area, and has a population of 406,886 . The population was 453,654 in 2000. The provincial capital is the city of Muş...

 - Mut, Mersin

Mut, Mersin

Mut is a town and district of Mersin Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey.Mut is a rural district at the foot of the Sertavul Pass on the road over the Taurus Mountains from Ankara and Konya to the Mediterranean coast at Anamur or Silifke...

 - Mut Castle

Mut Castle

Mut Castle is a castle in Mut, Mersin Province, Turkey- Geography :The castle is in mid town at about . Laal Pasha Mosque is to the east and intercity bus terminal is to the north east...

 - Müftü River

Müftü River

Müftü River is a short river in Mersin Province, Turkey.-Geography:The headwaters are in the Toros Mountains, near the town of Arslanköy and the village of Sadiye. The river runs east and then south, flowing to the Mediterranean Sea within the city of Mersin at...

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Naci Erdem

Naci Erdem

Naci Erdem is the fifth most capped Turkish football player in Fenerbahçe football history, with 605 caps.He started his career with Karagümrükspor and transferred from Havagücü on 1955....

 - Naim Süleymanoğlu

Naim Süleymanoglu

Naim Süleymanoğlu , formerly known as Naim Suleimanov , is a Turkish World and Olympic Champion in weightlifting...

 - Namık Kemal Yolga

Namik Kemal Yolga

Namık Kemal Yolga was a Turkish diplomat and statesman, known as the Turkish Schindler. During World War II, Yolga was the Vice-Consul at the Turkish Embassy in Paris, France...

 - Narlıkuyu

Narlıkuyu

Narlıkuyu is a small coastal town in Mersin Province, Turkey. - Geography :Narlıkuyu at is situated on the Mediterranean coast, south west of Mersin. It is a part of Silifke district which is in turn a part of Mersin Province...

 - Nasreddin

Nasreddin

Nasreddin was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or...

 - Natalia Nasaridze

Natalia Nasaridze

Natalia Nasaridze is a three-time European champion archer, currently competing internationally for Turkey....

 - Nationalistic Democracy Party

Nationalist Democracy Party (Turkey)

- Background :After the coup of 1980, all political parties were closed by the military rule, so called National Security Council or regardless of their political views, on the 16 October 1981. For approximately one and half year, there were no political parties. Finally, MGK decided to allow the...

 - Nationalist Movement Party

Nationalist Movement Party

The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote...

 - NATO - Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign

Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign

The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation...

 - Nazım Hikmet

Nazim Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet Ran , commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet , was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements"...

 - Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu

Nazli Deniz Kuruoglu

Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu is a Turkish ballet dancer and a former beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1982.-Biography:She was educated in ballet dancing at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey. She danced in the state opera until she had to quit active dancing career following a...

 - Necdet Kent

Necdet Kent

İsmail Necdet Kent was a Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews during World War II. While vice consul-general in Marseilles, France between 1941 and 1944, he gave Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers, to save them from...

 - Necdet Mahfi Ayral

Necdet Mahfi Ayral

Necdet Mahfi Ayral was a well-known Turkish stage and cinema actor, as well as theatre director. While alive, he held the record for being the oldest actor who was still active...

 - Necmettin Erbakan

Necmettin Erbakan

Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish engineer, academic, politician , who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 until 1997. He was Turkey's first Islamist Prime Minister...

 - Nejat Eczacıbaşı

Nejat Eczacibasi

Mehmet Nejat Ferit Eczacıbaşı, known simply as Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı, , a second generation member of the notable Turkish Eczacıbaşı family, was a chemist, industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist....

 - Neşe Erberk

Nese Erberk

Neşe Erberk is a Turkish businesswoman, a former fashion model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1984.-Biography:She was born on October 14, 1964, in İstanbul, Turkey...

 - Neşet Ertaş

Neset Ertas

Neşet Ertaş is a Turkish folk music singer, lyrics writer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as halk şairi, which literally means "folk poet"....

 - Neve Shalom synagogue

Neve Shalom Synagogue

Neve Shalom Synagogue, , is a synagogue located in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey.The synagogue was built in response to an increase in the Jewish population in the old Galata neighborhood in the late 1930s. A Jewish primary school was torn down in 1949 for that purpose and the synagogue...

 - Nevşehir

Nevsehir

Nevşehir, formerly Muşkara, , is a city and the capital district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. According to the 2010 census, population of the district is 117,890 of which 85,634 631 live in the city of Nevşehir...

 - Nevşehir Province

Nevsehir Province

Nevşehir Province is a province in central Turkey with its capital in Nevşehir. It adjacent provinces are Kırşehir to the northwest, Aksaray to the southwest, Niğde to the south, Kayseri to the southeast, and Yozgat to the northeast. Nevşehir includes the area called Cappadocia - a very popular...

 - New Turkey Party

New Turkey Party

New Turkey Party was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 2002 following a leadership crisis in the Democratic Left Party that was the major partner in a three party coalition government....

 - New Turkey Party (1961)

New Turkey Party (1961)

New Turkey Parti was a former Turkish political party- Background :Democrat Party which was the ruling party of Turkey between 1950 and 1960 was closed by the military rule in 1960. In 1961, a number of new parties were founded to fill the political gap of Democrat Party...

 - New Turkish lira - Niğde

Nigde

Niğde is a small city and the capital of Niğde Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. The population is 109,724 per the 2010 statistics...

 - Niğde Province

Nigde Province

Niğde Province is a small rural province in the southern part of Central Anatolia, Turkey. Population is 337.931 of which 100.418 live in the city of Niğde. The population was 348,081 in 2000 and 305.861 in 1990. It covers an area of 7,312 km²...

 - Nicaea

Empire of Nicaea

The Empire of Nicaea was the largest of the three Byzantine Greek successor states founded by the aristocracy of the Byzantine Empire that fled after Constantinople was occupied by Western European and Venetian forces during the Fourth Crusade...

 - Nihat Erim

Nihat Erim

Ismail Nihat Erim was a Turkish politician and jurist. Nihat Erim was born in Kandıra to Raif Erim and Macide Erim. He served as the prime minister of Turkey from 1971 until 1972, for almost 14 months...

 - Nil Burak

Nil Burak

Pembe Nihal Munsif , better known as Nil Burak, is a Turkish Cypriot pop singer and actress who is famous in Turkey.-Biography:...

 - Nişancı Ahmet Pasha

Nişancı Ahmet Pasha

Nişancı Ahmed Pasha , also called Şehla Ahmed Pasha, was an Ottoman Grand Vizier during the reign of Mahmud I.- Early life :...

 -North Anatolian fault

North Anatolian Fault

The North Anatolian Fault is a major active right lateral-moving strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia which runs along the transform boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Anatolian Plate. The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova Triple...

 - Nuray Hafiftas

Nuray Hafiftas

Nuray Hafiftaş is a Turkish folk singer, who was born in 1964 in Çıldır, Ardahan Province, Turkey. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Istanbul where Hafiftaş received her primary and secondary education at Taksim school. After that she continued her higher education at the State...

 - Nurcan Taylan

Nurcan Taylan

Nurcan Taylan is a Turkish Olympic, world and European champion in weightlifting. She holds six European and one world record ....

 - Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....

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Oğuz Aral

Oguz Aral

Oğuz Aral was a Turkish political cartoonist.-Biography:Born in Silivri, Istanbul Province, he founded the cartoon magazine Gırgır with his brother Tekin Aral, and created such characters as "Avanak Avni" , "Köstebek Hüsnü" , "Utanmaz Adam" and "Vites Mahmut"...

 - Oğuz Atay

Oguz Atay

Oğuz Atay was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar , appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984...

 - Oğuz Yılmaz

Oguz Yilmaz

Oğuz Yılmaz is a famous folk musician in Turkey. He was born and grew up in Ankara, Turkey. He lived and performed most of his life in Sincan, a region of Ankara. Therefore he is also known as "Oguz from Sincan". His lyrics were controversial, educational and also entertaining...

 - Oktay Sinanoğlu

Oktay Sinanoglu

Oktay Sinanoğlu is a Turkish scientist specializing in theoretical chemistry and molecular biology. In May 1963 at the age of 29 , he was full professor at Yale University...

 - Ordu

Ordu

Ordu 'army') is a port city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, and the capital of Ordu Province. Estimated population c. 2010: 141,341.-Etymology:...

 - Ordu Province

Ordu Province

Ordu Province is a province of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east. Its traffic code is 52...

 - Orhan I

Orhan I

Orhan I or Orhan Bey was the second bey of the nascent Ottoman Empire from 1326 to 1359...

 - Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk , generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing....

 - Orhan Veli

Orhan Veli

Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık who is the founder of Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet has moved to the poetic language, utterance of man-in-the street by purposing rootedly to change the old structure in Turkish poetry...

 - Osman I

Osman I

Osman I or Othman I or El-Gazi Sultan Osman Ghazi, or Osman Bey or I. Osman, Osman Gazi Han), nicknamed "Kara" for his courage, was the leader of the Ottoman Turks, and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire...

 - Osman II

Osman II

Sultan Osman II or Othman II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death on 20 May 1622...

 - Osman III

Osman III

Osman III or Othman IIIText not available was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757.-Biography:...

 - Osman Aga of Timişoara

Osman Aga of Timişoara

Osman Aga of Temesvar , was an Ottoman army officer . He is known as one of the few Turkish-language autobiographers of the era. More important than that, he was a prisoner of war and he wrote mostly about his adventures in Habsburg Austria which makes the autobiography the sole Turkish example of...

 - Osman Nuri Pasha - Osman Pazvantoğlu

Osman Pazvantoglu

Osman Pazvantoğlu was a Bosnian Ottoman soldier, a governor of the Vidin district after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule...

 - Otto Liman von Sanders

Otto Liman von Sanders

Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders was a German general who served as adviser and military commander for the Ottoman Empire during World War I.-Biography:...

 - Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 - Ottoman-Iran wars - Ottoman palaces in İstanbul

Ottoman palaces in Istanbul

Below are the palaces commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty in İstanbul, Turkey. Actually some of these buildings are summer houses or mansions....

 - Ottoman (Turkish) battles- Ottoman (Turkish) treaties - Ottoman Turks

Ottoman Turks

The Ottoman Turks were the Turkish-speaking population of the Ottoman Empire who formed the base of the state's military and ruling classes. Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks is scarce, but they take their Turkish name, Osmanlı , from the house of Osman I The Ottoman...

 - Ottoman Venice treaty -

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Ömer Faruk Tekbilek - Ömer Sabancı

Ömer Sabanci

Ömer Sabancı , a member of the Turkey’s second wealthiest Sabancı family in third generation, is a Turkish businessman. He has the ex-chairman of the prestigious Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association .-Biography:...

 - Ören

Ören, Mersin

- Geography :Ören at is a part of Anamur district of Mersin Province. It is one of the southernmost settlements of Anatolia. It is close to Anamur i.e., only south west of Anamur. Distance to Mersin is The population is 3986 as of 2010.- History :...

 - Özcan Buze

Özcan Buze

Özcan Buze is a Turkish journalist and publicist.He was educated in University of Istanbul and Oslo University. Buze wrote articles on foreign policy for various newspapers and magazines and edited popular scientific monthly Bilim ve Utopya...

 - Özdemir Pasha

Özdemir Pasha

Özdemir Pasha was a Caucasian Mameluke general for the Ottoman Empire. He joined Hadim Süleyman Pasha's campaign to India , in 1538. Later he became the Governor of Yemen and invaded Ethiopia in 1557 for the Ottoman Empire.He died in 1561 in Sana, Yemen....

 - Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha

Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha

Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha was an able statesman and a commander of the Ottoman Empire who had also been the grand vizier for one year...

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Pamukkale

Pamukkale

Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water...

 - Pan-Turkism

Pan-Turkism

Pan-Turkism is a nationalist movement that emerged in 1880s among the Turkic intellectuals of the Russian Empire, with the aim of cultural and political unification of all Turkic peoples.-Name:...

 - Patriarch Bartholomew I - Patriarch of Constantinople

Patriarch of Constantinople

The Ecumenical Patriarch is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome – ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....

 - Payas

Payas

-Geography:Payas is a town in Dörtyol district which is a part of Hatay Province. It is a Mediterranean coastal town situated at about . Distance to Dörtyol at the north is and to İskenderun is at the south is .The population is 33444 as of 2010.-History:...

 -Pekinel sisters

Pekinel sisters

Güher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel as identical twins, are Turkish pianists performing mostly in duet.-Early years:...

 - Peninsulas of Turkey

Peninsulas of Turkey

Turkey is a peninsular country; the country is located on two peninsulas; the Asiatic side is named as Anatolia, and European side is named as Thrace. On these two main peninsulas there are secondary peninsulas. - The list of peninsulas :...

 - Pergamon

Pergamon

Pergamon , or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC...

 - Piri Reis

Piri Reis

Piri Reis was an Turkish Ottoman admiral, geographer and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470 and died in 1554 or 1555....

 - Polish Jagiellon ambassadors to Turkey

Polish Jagiellon ambassadors to Turkey

Below is the list of Jagiellon Poland ambassadors to Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. The diplomatic relations began in 1414 soon after the Ottoman Interregnum during the reign of first Jagiellon king of Polond-Lithuania. The names of the monarchs in 1414 were Jogaila and Mehmet I....

 - Politics of Cyprus

Politics of Cyprus

Politics of the Republic of Cyprus takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Cyprus is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is...

 - Politics of Turkey

Politics of Turkey

Politics of Turkey takes place in a framework of a strictly secular parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Turkey is the head of government, and of a multi-party system...

 - Pontus

Pontus

Pontus or Pontos is a historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Πόντος...

 - Ports of Turkey

Ports of Turkey

This is a list of ports in Turkey grouped by sea and sorted after port name, wherein piers and special purpose terminals are separated...

 - Power plants in Turkey- Priene

Priene

Priene was an ancient Greek city of Ionia at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about north of the then course of the Maeander River, from today's Aydin, from today's Söke and from ancient Miletus...

 - Princes' Islands

Princes' Islands

The Princes' Islands , are a chain of nine islands off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. The islands also constitute the Adalar district of Istanbul Province...

 - Provinces of Turkey

Provinces of Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called il in Turkish .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....

 - Public parks in Turkey

Public parks in Turkey

Below is the list of public parks or public gardens in the cities of Turkey. Note that National Parks of Turkey is not included in this list....

 - Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau

Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau

The pursuit of Goeben and Breslau was a naval action that occurred in the Mediterranean Sea at the outbreak of the First World War when elements of the British Mediterranean Fleet attempted to intercept the German Mittelmeerdivision comprising the battlecruiser and the light cruiser...

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Railway stations in Turkey

Railway stations in Turkey

Below is the list of railway stations in Turkey. Although there are hundreds of stations only those stations which can be linked to articles in Wikipedia are shown. Below is the list of railway stations in Turkey...

 - Rahmi Koç

Rahmi Koç

Rahmi Mustafa Koç is a Turkish businessmanBorn in Ankara as the only son of one of Turkey's wealthiest man Vehbi Koç, he attended high school at Robert College in Istanbul after his primary education in Ankara. Rahmi Koç then studied at the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. and received his B.A...

 - Rahmi M. Koç Museum - Rahmi M.Koç Museum (Ankara) - Rami Mehmet Pasha

Rami Mehmet Pasha

Rami Mehmed Pasha was an Ottoman Grand Vizier who was also known as a talented poet of divan literature .- Early years :...

 - Rauf Denktaş

Rauf Denktas

Rauf Raif Denktaş is the founder and the first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , a de facto state which is only recognized by Turkey...

 - Rauf Orbay

Rauf Orbay

Hüseyin Rauf Orbay was a Turkish naval officer and statesman, born in Istanbul.As an officer in the Ottoman Navy, he achieved fame for his actions as the captain of the cruiser Hamidiye during the First Balkan War...

 - Rebellions in the Ottoman Empire

Rebellions in the Ottoman Empire

During the 623 year existence of the Ottoman Empire, there were many rebellions. Some of these rebellions were in fact interregnum . Some were national uprisings . In the list below only those rebellions confined to Turkey, the heartland of Ottoman Empire are shown....

 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara...

 - Refah Tragedy

Refah Tragedy

The Refah tragedy refers to a maritime disaster during World War II, when the cargo steamer Refah of neutral Turkey, carrying Turkish military personnel from Mersin in Turkey to Port Said, Egypt was sunk in eastern Mediterranean waters by a torpedo fired from an unidentified submarine...

 - Reisülküttap

Reisülküttap

Reisülküttap was a bureaucratic post in the Ottoman Empire.Katip means clerk and reis means chief. So Reisülküttap was the chief of clerks in the Ottoman divan . There were three offices under his supervision...

 - Republican Party

Republican Party (Turkey)

Republican Party was a former political party in Turkey Republican People’s party which is usually credited as the founder of Turkish republic in 1923 was the oldest party in Turkey. But after the party adopted the policy of so called left of center in 1960s, two groups of MPs broke away from...

 - Republican Confidence Party - Republican People's Party (Turkey)

Republican People's Party (Turkey)

The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to...

 - Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey

Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey

Türkiye İhtilâlci İşçi Köylü Partisi , a pro-Chinese communist party in Turkey. TİİKP was founded in 1971 by the Proleter Devrimci Aydınlık group, that had broken away from Dev-Genç . The chairman of TİİKP was Doğu Perinçek...

 - Rize

Rize

Rize is the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.-Etymology:The name comes from Greek or Ριζαίον , meaning "mountain slopes". In modern times, its name in Greek was usually Ριζούντα . Its Latin forms are Rhizus and Rhizaeum...

 - Rize Province

Rize Province

Rize Province is a province of north-east Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. Its capital is the city of Rize.-Geography:...

 - Robert College

Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and...

 - Roman road in Cilicia

Roman road in Cilicia

Roman road in Cilicia is a part of a Roman road in Mersin Province, Turkey- Geography :The road is thought to be a part of the main road connecting Cilicia to Capadocia during antiquity. The northern terminus was likely in the town of Bahçeli, a part of the ancient city of Tyanna in Niğde Province...

 - Roxelana

Roxelana

Haseki Hürrem Sultan was the wife of Süleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire.-Names:Sixteenth-century sources are silent as to her maiden name, but much later traditions, for example Ukrainian folk traditions first recorded in the 19th century, give it as "Anastasia" , and Polish...

 - Rumelia

Rumelia

Rumelia was an historical region comprising the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe...

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Sabancı University

Sabanci University

Sabancı University is a private research institution located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1996. SU is a small and highly focused university with 2861 undergraduates and 624 graduates, maintaining a strong emphasis on social and natural sciences...

 - Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen was a Turkish aviatrix. First Turkish female combat pilot, aged 23. She was one of the eight adopted children of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.- Early life :...

 - Sağlık

Sağlık

- Geography :Sağlık is in Meram district, capital of which is actually in Greater Konya . At it is small town situated on the northern slopes of a hill to the west of Konya. The population is 1259 as of 2009 - History :...

 - Saint Paul's Church, Tarsus

Saint Paul's Church, Tarsus

Saint Paul's Church is a church in Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey.- Tarsus and the churches :Tarsus, in Cilicia of the antiquity, what is now South Turkey, was an important city during both ancient and medieval ages. The tombs of Daniel of the Bible and Al-Ma'mun , the caliph, are in Tarsus. Saint...

 - Sakarya Province

Sakarya Province

Sakarya Province is a province in Turkey, located on the coast of Black Sea. The river Sakarya creates a webbing of estuaries in the province....

 - Sakıp Sabancı

Sakip Sabanci

Sakıp Sabancı was a prominent Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist.Born as the second son of a cotton trader, he worked in all the ranks of his father's business without completing high school. He was the head of Turkey's largest business conglomerate and 147th richest man on the Forbes list...

 - Samsun

Samsun

Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...

 - Samsun Province

Samsun Province

Samsun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1,252,693 . Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasya on the south, Tokat on the southeast, and Ordu on the east...

 - Sanjak

Sanjak

Sanjaks were administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. Sanjak, and the variant spellings sandjak, sanjaq, and sinjaq, are English transliterations of the Turkish word sancak, meaning district, banner, or flag...

 - Sardis

Sardis

Sardis or Sardes was an ancient city at the location of modern Sart in Turkey's Manisa Province...

 - Savcı Bey

Savcı Bey

Savcı Bey was an Ottoman prince who participated in a joint rebellion with a Byzantine prince against their fathers in 1370s. Savcı was the youngest of Murat I's three sons. The name of his mother and birth year are unknown. In Ottoman tradition all princes were required to work as provencial ...

 - Sea of Marmara

Sea of Marmara

The Sea of Marmara , also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, and in the context of classical antiquity as the Propontis , is the inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey's Asian and European parts. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Black...

 - Sebil

Sebil

- Geography :Sebil is a part of Çamlıyayla district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. Distance between Sebil and Çamlıyayla is . Sebil is located on southern slopes of Toros Mountains at . The average altitude is about . The country about Sebil is chiefly formed of conglomerate and...

 - Second Battle of Krithia

Second Battle of Krithia

The Second Battle of Krithia continued the Allies' attempts to advance on the Helles battlefield during the Battle of Gallipoli of the First World War. The village of Krithia and neighbouring hill of Achi Baba had to be captured in order for the British to advance up the Gallipoli peninsula to the...

 - Sedat Artuç

Sedat Artuc

Sedat Artuç is a Turkish European champion in weightlifting. He is winner of silver medal in World championship and of bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics....

 - Semih Şentürk

Semih Sentürk

Semih Şentürk is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Turkish Süper Lig side Fenerbahçe as a striker, and also the Turkish national team.-Fenerbahçe:...

 - Sedd el Bahr

Sedd el Bahr

Sedd el Bahr is a village at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The village lies east of the cape, on the shore of the Dardanelles...

 - Sedefkar Mehmed Agha - Seleucid Empire

Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great. At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir and parts of Pakistan.The Seleucid Empire was a major centre...

 - Selim I

Selim I

Selim I, Yavuz Sultân Selim Khan, Hâdim-ül Haramain-ish Sharifain , nicknamed Yavuz "the Stern" or "the Steadfast", but often rendered in English as "the Grim" , was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to...

 - Selim II

Selim II

Selim II Sarkhosh Hashoink , also known as "Selim the Sot " or "Selim the Drunkard"; and as "Sarı Selim" or "Selim the Blond", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.-Early years:He was born in Constantinople a son of Suleiman the...

 - Selim III

Selim III

Selim III was the reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. The Janissaries eventually deposed and imprisoned him, and placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV...

 - Selim I Giray

Selim I Giray

Selim I Giray was a Crimean khan He reigned four times between 1671 – 1704.-Background:Crimean khans were the direct descendants of Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empreror. After the death of Genghis Khan the empire was partitioned and the part in East Europe and Northwest Asia was named Golden...

 - Selim Giray

Selim Giray

Selim Giray, Turkish born American Violinist, Researcher, and Conductor.- Biography :Turkish born violinist Selim Giray serves as Associate Professor of Violin, Viola and Artistic Director and Conductor of PSU Chamber Orchestra and Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra at Pittsburg State...

 - Seljuq dynasty

Seljuq dynasty

The Seljuq ; were a Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to 14th centuries...

 - Semiha Berksoy

Semiha Berksoy

Semiha Berksoy was one of the first Turkish opera singers, the prima donna of the Turkish opera, a painter, and an internationally acclaimed artist....

 - Senate of the Republic

Senate of the Republic

Senate of the Republic was the name of the upper house of Turkish Parliament between 1961-1980- History :Although the Turkish Parliament was established in 1920 to replace the older Ottoman Parliament, the parliament was composed of only the lower house. Turkish Constitution of 1961 introduced the...

 - Separation of church and state

Separation of church and state

The concept of the separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state....

 - Serdar Bilgili

Serdar Bilgili

Serdar Bilgili, born in 1963 in Istanbul, Turkey, served as the president of the Istanbul based football club Beşiktaş J.K..His family was from the Kahramanmaraş Province in Turkey. After graduating from Robert College in Turkey, he studied Business Administration in the University of Redlands in...

 - Serkan Aykut

Serkan Aykut

Serkan Aykut is a former Turkish footballer. He plays in the striker position.Aykut started to play at Samsunspor. After becoming top scorer with 30 goals in the season 1999-2000, he transferred to Galatasaray SK for $ 5.9 million...

 - Serkan Balcı

Serkan Balci

Serkan Balcı is a Turkish international footballer playing for Trabzonspor.-Club career:He has played for Fenerbahçe SK and Gençlerbirliği S.K.. He signed for Trabzonspor in June 2007.-International career:...

 - Sertab Erener

Sertab Erener

Sertab Erener is a Turkish pop music singer and also a cross-over soprano with a vocal range that extends to high F. She is one of the most successful female Turkish pop singers in her homeland, and is considered one of the divas of Turkish pop music...

 - Sevil Sabancı

Sevil Sabanci

Sevil Sabancı , a member of the Sabancı family in third generation, is a Turkish businesswoman.-Biography:She was born on January 4, 1973, in Istanbul, Turkey as the third child of Sakıp Sabancı, the founder of Sabancı Holding, Turkey’s second biggest industrial and financial conglomerate...

 - Seyhan Kurt

Seyhan Kurt

- Biography :Born in Grenoble, Isère, France, he started his primary education at La Verpillere, Ecole Les Marronnier and completed it at Ecole Jean Jaures in Lyon. He graduated from Dumlupinar High School in Mersin and continued his education in Selcuk University in Konya and studied French...

 - Seyyid Kasim Gubari

Seyyid Kasim Gubari

Seyyid Kasim Gubari of Diyarbakır is recorded as being responsible for much of the calligraphy of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, he was commissioned to write verses from the Koran throughout the mosque. He was also said to be one of the greatest calligraphers of his day....

 - Sezen Aksu

Sezen Aksu

Sezen Aksu is a Turkish pop music singer, song-writer and producer who sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and Minik Serçe ....

 - Sheikh Hamdullah

Sheikh Hamdullah

Sheikh Hamdullah , born in Amasya, Ottoman Empire, was a master of Islamic calligraphy. He devoted his whole life to the art of calligraphy, producing forty-seven Mus'hafs, book of Qur'an, and innumerable En'ams, Evrads and Juz'....

 - Sızma

Sızma

Sızma is a town in Konya Province, Turkey. -Geography:Sızma is a town in Selçuklu district capital of which is actually in Greater Konya. The town is at . It is a few kilometers west of the main road connecting Konya to Afyon. The highway distance to Konya is about...

 - Sibel Kekilli - Silahtar Ali Pasha -Sinop, Turkey

Sinop, Turkey

Sinop is a city with a population of 36,734 on İnce Burun , by its Cape Sinop which is situated on the most northern edge of the Turkish side of Black Sea coast, in the ancient region of Paphlagonia, in modern-day northern Turkey, historically known as Sinope...

 - Sinop Province

Sinop Province

Sinop Province is a province of Turkey, along the Black Sea. It is located between 41 and 42 degrees North latitude and between 34 and 35 degrees East longitude. The surface area is 5,862 km², equivalent to 0.8% of Turkey's surface area. The borders total 475 km and consists of 300 km of land and...

 - Sipahis - Sivas - Sivas Province

Sivas Province

The Sivas Province is a province of Turkey. It located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolian region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmaraş to the south, Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan...

 - Six Divisions of Cavalry

Six Divisions of Cavalry

The Six Divisions of Cavalry was a corps of mounted elite soldiers in the Ottoman army. There were not really six but four divisions. Two of the six were sub-divisions...

 - SMS Breslau

SMS Breslau

SMS Breslau was a Magdeburg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine , built in the early 1910s. Following her commissioning, Breslau and the battlecruiser were assigned to the Mittelmeerdivision in response to the Balkan Wars...

 - SMS Goeben

SMS Goeben

SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben...

 - SODEP

SODEP

SODEP is the abbreviation of Social Democracy Party of Turkey which was one of the two main parties of Turkey in early 1980s but later on merged with another party.- Background :...

 - Soğucak

Soğucak

- Geography :The town is situated at the southern slopes of Toros Mountains. The average altitude is . It is north of Mersin at . The current population is 2673- History :...

 - Sport in Turkey - State organisation of the Ottoman Empire

State organisation of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire developed a highly advanced organisation of state over the centuries. Even though it had a very centralized government with the Sultan as the supreme ruler, it had an effective control of its provinces and inhabitants, as well as its officials. Wealth and rank wasn't necessarily...

 - State road D715

State road D715 (Turkey)

' is a north to south state road in Turkey. The northern end of the 415-kilometre road merges to state road at a location popularly known as Kulu makası north of Lake Tuz. The southern end of the road merges to state road in Silifke...

 - Suat Hayri Ürgüplü

Suat Hayri Ürgüplü

Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü was a Turkish political figure. He served a brief term as prime minister of Turkey in 1965.-Biography:...

 - Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire

Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire

The subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire were administrative divisions of the state organisation of the Ottoman Empire. Outside this system were various types of vassal and tributary states....

 - Suleiman II

Suleiman II

Suleiman II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691...

 - Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman I was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as "The Lawgiver" , for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system...

 - Sulejman Pasha

Sulejman Pasha

Sulejman Pashë Bargjini was a general of the Ottoman Empire. He was originally from Bargjin, but he settled in the village of Mullet, Albania and probably served as a Janissary, he was given the title Pasha. He founded the city of Tirana, now the capital of Albania, in 1614. At the time he had...

 -Sulu Khan

Sulu khan

Suluk, Sul-lu or Sulu was a Turkic tribe leader and a warlord who defended Transoxania against Ummayad Arab armies in the early eight century.- Turgesh :Turgesh was a Turkic tribe around Transoxania...

 - Sultan Ahmed Mosque

Sultan Ahmed Mosque

The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire . The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior....

 - Suna Kan

Suna Kan

Suna Kan, born on October 21, 1936 in Adana, Turkey. Great Turkish violinist.She started playing the violin at the age of five and gave her first public concerts when she was only nine years old, performing Mozart's A major and Viotti's A minor violin concertos with the Presidential Symphony...

 - Suvla

Suvla

Suvla is a bay on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey, south of the Gulf of Saros.On 6 August 1915 it was the site for the Landing at Suvla Bay by the British IX Corps as part of the August Offensive during the Battle of Gallipoli...

 - Süleyman Çelebi

Süleyman Çelebi

Süleyman Çelebi was an Ottoman prince and a co-ruler of the empire for several years during the Ottoman Interregnum. - Back ground :...

 - Süleyman Demirel

Süleyman Demirel

Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel, better known as Süleyman Demirel , is a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister seven times and was the ninth President of Turkey.-Life:Demirel was born in İslamköy, a town in Isparta Province...

 - Süleymaniye Mosque - Süreyya Ayhan

Sureyya Ayhan

Süreyya Ayhan Kop is a Turkish former middle distance track runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. In November 2009, she was banned for lifetime by the Court of Arbitration for Sport due to failing a doping test....

 - Sykes-Picot Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

The Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 was a secret agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and France, with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining their respective spheres of influence and control in Western Asia after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I...

 - Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

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Şahkulu Rebellion

Şahkulu Rebellion

The Şahkulu rebellion was a widespread pro-Shia and pro-Safavid uprising in Anatolia, directed against the Ottoman Empire, in 1511. It is named after the leader of the rebels, Şahkulu. His death in battle also meant the end of the uprising.- Background :Persia was consolidated by Ismail I of the...

 - Şanlıurfa

Sanliurfa

Şanlıurfa, , often simply known as Urfa in daily language , in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323 inhabitants Şanlıurfa, , often simply known as Urfa in daily language (Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ Urhoy,Armenian Ուռհա Owr'ha, Arabic الرها ar-Ruhā), in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323...

 - Şanlıurfa Irrigation Tunnels

Şanlıurfa Irrigation Tunnels

Şanlıurfa Irrigation tunnels is the name of a major irrigation tunnel constructed in connection with the Southeastern Anatolia Project, a multi-sector integrated regional development project of Turkey. The tunnels were commissioned by the State Hydraulic Works authority. The constructor was Eren...

 - Şanlıurfa Province

Sanliurfa Province

Şanlıurfa Province or simply Urfa Province is a province in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey. The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which bears its name. The population is 1,663,371 ....

 - Şehzade Ahmet

Şehzade Ahmet

Şehzade Ahmet was an Ottoman prince who fought for throne in 1512-3.-Background:Ahmet was the oldest living son of Beyazit II. His mother was Bülbül Hatun. In Ottoman tradition all princes were required to work as provencial governors in Anatolia as a part of their training...

 - Şehzade Beyazıt

Şehzade Beyazıt

Şehzade Beyazit was an Ottoman prince who fought for the throne- Background :Beyazit's father was Suleyman I . His mother was Hürrem Sultan. He ruled in Anatolia as a provencial governor...

- Şehzade Korkut

Şehzade Korkut

Şehzade Korkut was an Ottoman prince who was a short time regent for the Ottoman throne.- Early years :He was born in Amasya in 1467. His father was Beyazıt II. There is no consensus on the name of his mother. She was either a certain Nigar Khatun or Gülbahar Sultan. If the later is true, he was...

 - Şehzade Mustafa

Sehzade Mustafa

Şehzade Mustafa Muhlisi , the prince of Manisa from 1533 to 1541 and the prince of Amasya from 1541 to 1553, was Suleiman the Magnificent's first born son by Mahidevran . He was the apparent heir to the Turkish throne.- Life :Mustafa experienced problems in his relations with his father...

 - Şenköy

Şenköy

Şenköy is a town in Hatay Province, Turkey.Şenköy is south of Antakya on the way to Yayladağı at . The population is 1731 as of 2010....

 - Şenol Güneş

Senol Günes

Şenol Güneş is a former Turkish footballer, manager and philosopher. His biggest accomplishment to date is coaching the Turkey that won the bronze medal in the 2002 World Cup. Güneş is married and has two children.-Career:...

 - Şevket Sabancı

Sevket Sabanci

Şevket Sabancı , a member of the renowned Sabancı family in second generation, is a Turkish businessman and philanthropist.-Biography:...

 - Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium

Sükrü Saracoglu Stadium

Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium is a football stadium in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey, and is the home venue of Fenerbahçe S.K.. It was inaugurated in 1908 and renovated between 1999 and 2006...

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Taksim Square

Taksim Square

Taksim Square situated in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major shopping, tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the central station of the Istanbul Metro network...

 - Talas, Turkey

Talas, Turkey

Talas is a town in central Anatolia and a district of Kayseri Province in Turkey. The population of Talas city was 40,122 in 2000, while the district of Talas as a whole counted 60,925 people.-History:...

 - Talât Sait Halman - Tales from the Expat Harem

Tales from the Expat Harem

Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey is a nonfiction anthology by 32 expatriate women from seven nations and five continents about their lives in modern Turkey, published by Seal Press in North America and Doğan Kitap in Turkey .Edited by Anastasia M...

 - Taner Sagir

Taner Sagir

Taner Sağır is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming to Athens as holder of all the junior world records, he broke, at age of 19 only, Olympic records in the category –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total, and became so the youngest Olympic champion in the...

 - Tanju Çolak - Tansu Çiller

Tansu Çiller

Tansu Penbe Çiller is a Turkish economist and politician. She was Turkey's first and only female Prime Minister.- Early career :She is the daughter of a Turkish governor of Bilecik province during the 1950s. She graduated from the School of Economics at Robert College after finishing the American...

 - Tanzimat

Tanzimat

The Tanzimât , meaning reorganization of the Ottoman Empire, was a period of reformation that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. The Tanzimât reform era was characterized by various attempts to modernize the Ottoman Empire, to secure its territorial integrity against...

 - Tapureli ruins

Tapureli ruins

- Geography :Limonlu River is a small river in Erdemli district of Mersin Province. It was named Lamos River in the antiquity and it was usually taken as the borderline between Cilicia Trachaea and Cilicia Pedias. Tapureli ruins are situated on a plateau which overlook the canyon of the river at...

 - Tardu

Tardu

Tardu was the second yabgu and the first khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate.- Names :The regnal name in Turkic was Tarduš , Medieval Greek: Ταρδου, 達頭可汗/达头可汗, Pinyin: dátóu kěhàn, Wade-Giles: ta-t'ou k'o-han, personal name: 阿史那玷厥, āshǐnà diànjué, a-shih-na tien-chüeh)...

 - Tarkan - Tarsus

Tarsus, Mersin

Tarsus is a historic city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 2.75 million...

 - Tarsus Grand Mosque

Tarsus Grand Mosque

Tarsus Grand Mosque is a mosque in Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :The mosque is at the center of Tarsus at about in Camii Nur neighbourhood. It is the biggest mosque of Tarsus. It is very close to St Paul's Church, only about bird's flight away.- History :The mosque had been built...

 - Tarsus Railway Station - Taşkale

Taşkale (Kızıllar)

- Geography :Taşkale is in the east of Karaman and on the northern slopes of Toros Mountains at . The highway distance to Karaman is . The older quarter of the town which is of interest is at the west . The older town is made of series of caves which are used presently as cereal silos...

 - Taşpınar

Taşpınar, Aksaray

- Geography :Taşpınar is in the Anatolian plateau, just west of Mount Hasan. The coordinates of the midtown can be given as The average altitude is . The population is 2746 - History :...

 - Taurus Mountains

Taurus Mountains

Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east...

 - Tekirdağ

Tekirdag

Tekirdağ , the ancient Bisanthi , is a city in Eastern Thrace, in the European part of Turkey. Tekirdağ is the capital of Tekirdağ Province, felt by the local people to be a quieter and more pleasant town than the industrial centre of Çorlu, which it administers. The city population as of 2009 was...

 - Tekirdağ Province

Tekirdag Province

The Tekirdağ Province is in Trakya , the northwestern part of Turkey. The capital city is Tekirdağ. It is famous for its meatball called "Tekirdağ köfte" and the Turkish alcoholic drink called Tekirdağ rakısı.-Districts:...

 - Tekeli, Mersin

Tekeli, Mersin

- Geography :Tekeli is a part of Bozyazı district which itself is a part of Mersin Province. It is situated on a small coastal plain surounded by the Toros Mountains. It is Datça Mersin highway which runs parallel to Mediterranean coast at about ....

 - Tekmen

Tekmen

Tekmen is a town in Mersin Province , Turkey.- Geography :Tekmen is a Mediterranean coastal town. Toros mountains are just north of the town and the coastal plain of the town is a narrow strip between the sea and the mountains. Mountains are covered by macquis groves and red pine forests.Tekmen is...

 - Tellak - Temple of Artemis

Temple of Artemis

The Temple of Artemis , also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was situated at Ephesus , and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction...

 - Tevfik Esenç

Tevfik Esenç

Tevfik Esenç was a Circassian exile in Turkey and the last known fully competent speaker of the Ubykh language.Esenç was raised by his Ubykh-speaking grandparents for a time in the village of Hacı Osman in Turkey, and he served a term as the muhtar of that village, before receiving a post in the...

 - Tevfik Gelenbe

Tevfik Gelenbe

Tevfik Gelenbe was a well-known and prolific Turkish actor and comedian.-Biography:He was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1931. He is best known for his character "Bacı Kalfa" in the 1980s TV serial Uğurlugil Ailesi...

 - The Auspicious Incident

The Auspicious Incident

The Auspicious Incident was the forced disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary corps by Ottoman sultan Mahmud II in June 1826....

 - The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul - The Spice Bazaar, Istanbul - Third Battle of Krithia

Third Battle of Krithia

The Third Battle of Krithia , fought on the Gallipoli peninsula during World War I, was the final in a series of Allied attacks against the Ottoman defences aimed at capturing the original objectives of 25 April 1915...

 - Tigris

Tigris

The Tigris River is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq.-Geography:...

 - Timariots - Timeline of the Battle of Gallipoli

Timeline of the Battle of Gallipoli

This article presents the timeline of the Gallipoli Campaign. The period of the proper battle is considered to be 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916, however a number of events took place between August 1914 and January 1915 that are relevant to the battle....

 - Timeline of the Ottoman Empire

Timeline of the Ottoman Empire

This article provides a timeline of the Ottoman EmpireSee also Timeline of the Republic of Turkey, a chronology of the successor state to the Ottoman Empire.This timeline is incomplete; some important events may be missing...

 - Timeline of the Republic of Turkey

Timeline of the Republic of Turkey

This is a timeline of the Republic of Turkey. To read about the background to these events, see History of the Republic of Turkey. See also the List of Presidents of Turkey....

 - Timeline of the Sultanate of Rûm - Timeline of broadcast in Turkey

Timeline of broadcast in Turkey

Below is the milestones of Turkish radio TV broadcasting. The oldest broadcaster in Turkey is TRT, the public broadcaster, which now broadcasts6 nationwide, 6 regional, 1 local and 2 international radio channels as well as...

 - Timeline of the Turkish War of Independence

Chronology of the Turkish War of Independence

This chronology of the Turkish War of Independence is a timeline of events during the Turkish War of Independence . The timeline also includes the background events starting with the end of the First World War. The events are classified according to the campaigns and parties involved...

 - Timeline of Turks (500-1300) - Timur

Timur

Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...

 - Timur Selçuk

Timur Selçuk

Timur Selçuk is a renowned Turkish singer, pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He is a son of the legendary Turkish neo-classical music composer, Münir Nurettin Selçuk, and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk. He started playing piano at the age of five and...

 - Tokat

Tokat

Tokat is the capital city of Tokat Province of Turkey, at the mid Black Sea region of Anatolia. According to the 2009 census, the city of Tokat has a population of 129,879.-History:Tokat was established in the Hittite era....

 - Tokat Province

Tokat Province

Tokat Province is a province in northern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Amasya to the northwest, Yozgat to the southwest, Sivas to the southeast, and Ordu to the northeast...

 - Tokmar Castle

Tokmar Castle

-Geography:The castle is in the rural area of Silifke district of Mersin Province at . It is on a plateu at the southern slopes of Toros Mountains overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The altitude is and the birds' flight distance to sea shore is which makes the castle an excellent observation point...

 - Tomb of Seydi Mahmut

Tomb of Seydi Mahmut

- Seydi Mahmut Hayrani :Seydi Mahmut was a Sufi mystic and a follower of Mevlana . He was born in Harran, what is now a village of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. He travelled to Konya and met with Mevlana. Then he travelled to Akşehir about northwest of Konya where he died in 1268...

 - Tong Yabgu - Tonyukuk

Tonyukuk

Tonyukuk Tonyukuk Tonyukuk (Old Turkic: , Bilge Tuňuquq, died c. 724 AD, (暾欲穀/暾欲谷, Pinyin: tūnyùgǔ, personal name: Ashide Yuanzhen 阿史德元珍, āshǐdé yuánzhēn, a-shih-te yüan-chen) was the yabgu and commander-in-chief of four Göktürk khagans, the best known of whom is Bilge Khan. He played a major role...

 - Topkapı Palace

Topkapi Palace

The Topkapı Palace is a large palace in Istanbul, Turkey, that was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years of their 624-year reign....

 - Toroslar

Toroslar

Toroslar is a municipality and district governorate in Greater Mersin, Turkey. Mersin is one of 16 metropolitan centers in Turkey with more than one municipality within city borders. Now in Mersin there are four intracity municipalities in addition of Greater Mersin municipality...

- Tömük

Tömük

- Geography :Tömük is in the rural area of Erdemli district, which is a part of Mersin Province. Although the midtown is north of the seaside, newer quarters of the town are founded at the seaside just on the main highway connecting Mersin to the west. Highway distance to Mersin is and to...

 -.tr

.tr

.tr is the Internet country code top-level domain for Turkey. It is administered by Middle East Technical University ..nc.tr is used as a second-level domain for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as it has no country code assigned....

 - Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

 - Trabzon Province

Trabzon Province

Trabzon Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Located in a strategically important region, Trabzon is one of the oldest trade port cities in Anatolia. Neighbouring provinces are Giresun to the west, Gümüşhane to the southwest, Bayburt to the southeast and Rize to the east. The...

 - Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor won six championships in Turkish Super League. The Club won their first Championship title in 1975 which is also the Club's initiation year...

 - Transportation in Turkey - Treaty of Ahmet Pasha

Treaty of Ahmet Pasha

The Treaty of Ahmet Pasha was a treaty signed on 10 January 1732 between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Persia.- Background :...

 - Treaty of Athens

Treaty of Athens

Treaty of Athens was a treaty between Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece signed on 14 November 1913, formally ending hostilities between them after the two Balkan Wars.- Background :...

 - Treaty of Aynalıkavak

Treaty of Aynalıkavak

Treaty of Aynalıkavak was a treaty between Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire signed on March 10, 1779. The formal name is Aynalıkavak bond of arbitration . Aynalıkavak is a palace in İstanbul where the treaty was signed.- Background :...

 - Treaty of Berlin, 1878

Treaty of Berlin, 1878

The Treaty of Berlin was the final act of the Congress of Berlin , by which the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Abdul Hamid II revised the Treaty of San Stefano signed on March 3 of the same year...

 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, mediated by South African Andrik Fuller, at Brest-Litovsk between Russia and the Central Powers, headed by Germany, marking Russia's exit from World War I.While the treaty was practically obsolete before the end of the year,...

 - Treaty of Istanbul (1590) - Treaty of İstanbul (1533) - Treaty of İstanbul (1724) - Treaty of İstanbul (1897) - Treaty of İstanbul (1913) - Treaty of Kerden

Treaty of Kerden

Treaty of Kerden was signed between Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran on the 4th of September, 1746.- Background :During the last years of Safavid dynasty in Iran, Ottomans were able to annex most of Caucasus and west Iran. Meanwhile, Afghans were able to annex a part of Khorasan. The shah had to...

 - Treaty of Lausanne

Treaty of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 July 1923, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty of Lausanne was ratified by the Greek government on 11 February 1924, by the Turkish government on 31...

 - Treaty of Paris (1856)

Treaty of Paris (1856)

The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, Second French Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The treaty, signed on March 30, 1856 at the Congress of Paris, made the Black Sea neutral territory, closing it to all...

 - Treaty of San Stefano

Treaty of San Stefano

The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78...

 - Treaty of Serav

Treaty of Serav

Treaty of Serav was a treaty between Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia after the war of 1615 - 1618. - Background :...

 - Treaty of Sèvres

Treaty of Sèvres

The Treaty of Sèvres was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with Germany before this treaty to annul the German concessions including the economic rights and enterprises. Also, France, Great Britain and Italy...

 - Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the stratagem that allowed the Greeks finally to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict. In the canonical version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of men inside...

 - Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad...

 - Troy

Troy

Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida...

 - True Path Party

True Path Party

The Democratic Party , abbreviated to DP, is a centre-right, conservative Turkish political party, established by Suleyman Demirel in 1983 as the Right Path Party...

 - Tugay Kerimoğlu

Tugay Kerimoglu

Tugay Kerimoğlu is a Turkish former footballer who played the majority of his career for Galatasaray and Blackburn Rovers. Primarily a deep-lying playmaker in midfield, he was also competent as an attacking midfielder or playing in the holding role.Continually recognised for his ability he was...

 - Tunc Hamarat

Tunç Hamarat

Tunç Hamarat is a Turkish chess player living in Austria and the 16th International Correspondence Chess Federation World Champion in 2004....

 - Tunceli - Tunceli Province

Tunceli Province

The Tunceli Province is a province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The province was named Dersim Province and was changed to Tunceli Province on January 4, 1936. with the "Law on Administration of the Tunceli Province" , no...

 -Tünel

Tünel

The Tünel is a short underground railway line in Istanbul, Turkey. It is an underground funicular with two stations, connecting the quarters of Karaköy and Beyoğlu. Located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn, the underground railway tunnel goes uphill from close to sea level and is about 555...

 - Turbes - Turgut Özal

Turgut Özal

Halil Turgut Özal was Prime Minister of Turkey and President of Turkey . As Prime Minister, he transformed the economy of Turkey by paving the way for the privatization of many state enterprises.-Early life and career:...

 - Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 - Turkey national football team

Turkey national football team

The Turkey national football team represents Turkey in association football and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Turkey. They are affiliated with UEFA...

 - Turkic interregnum - Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...

 - Turkish alphabet

Turkish alphabet

The Turkish alphabet is a Latin alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. This alphabet represents modern Turkish pronunciation with a high degree of accuracy...

 - Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Turkish American Chamber of Commerce and Industry is anon-profit membership organization located in New York City. It was foundedin 2002.-Vision:TACCI's vision is establishing infrastructure and strategy necessary to...

 - Turkish Armed Forces

Turkish Armed Forces

The Turkish Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. They consist of the Army, the Navy , and the Air Force...

 - Turkish Army

Turkish Army

The Turkish Army or Turkish Land Forces is the main branch of the Turkish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The modern history of the army began with its formation after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire...

 - Turkish cuisine

Turkish cuisine

Turkish cuisine is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine, which can be described as a fusion and refinement of Central Asian, Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines. Turkish cuisine has in turn influenced those and other neighbouring cuisines, including that of western Europe...

 - Turkish Fifth Army

Turkish Fifth Army

The Fifth Army of the Ottoman Empire or Turkish Fifth Army was formed on March 24, 1915 and dissolved on October 1918. It was assigned the responsibility of defending the Dardanelles straits in the World War I. The original commander of the army was the German military advisor to the Ottoman...

 - Turkish First Army

Turkish First Army

The First Army of the Republic of Turkey is one of the four field armies of the Turkish Army. Its headquarters is located at Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul. It guards the sensitive borders of Turkey with Greece and Bulgaria, including the straits Bosporus and Dardanelles...

 - Turkish Football Cup - Turkish Football Federation

Turkish Football Federation

The Turkish Football Federation , also called the Turkish Football Association, is the governing body of football in Turkey. It was formed on 23 April 1923. It organizes the Turkish national teams and the Turkish football league. By 2004, there were 4,956 football clubs organized in Turkey, and a...

 - Turkish general elections after 1980

Turkish general elections after 1980

The outcome of the Turkish general elections after 1983 is shown below....

 - Turkish general elections before 1980

Turkish general elections before 1980

The outcomes of the Turkish general elections before 1980 is as follows. After coup d'etat in 1980 all political parties were closed by the military rule...

 - Turkish local elections after 1980

Turkish local elections after 1980

The outcome of the Turkish local elections after 1980 is shown below. . In the local elections in addition to mayors and muhtars, members of local parliaments are elected...

 - Turkish local elections before 1980

Turkish local elections before 1980

The outcome of the Turkish local elections before 1980 is shown below. In the local elections in addition to mayors and muhtars, members of local parliaments are elected...

 - Turkish General Staff - Turkish language

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

 - Turkish people

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 - Turkish riviera

Turkish Riviera

The Turkish Riviera is a term used to define an area of southwest Turkey encompassing Antalya, Muğla and to a lesser extent the provinces of Aydın, southern İzmir and western Mersin...

 - Turkish lira

Turkish lira

The Turkish lira is the currency of Turkey and the de facto independent state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The lira is subdivided into 100 kuruş...

 - Turkish literature

Turkish literature

Turkish literature comprises both oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form or in less exclusively literary forms, such as that spoken in the Republic of Turkey today...

 - Turkish music (style)

Turkish music (style)

"Turkish music", in the sense described here, is not music of Turkey, but rather a musical style called Alla turca that was occasionally used by European composers of the 17th and 18th centuries...

 - Turkish Pine

Turkish Pine

Pinus brutia, the Turkish pine, is a pine native to the eastern Mediterranean region. The bulk of its range is in Turkey, but it also extends to the East Aegean Islands of Greece, the Crimea, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, western Syria, Lebanon, and Cyprus...

 - Turkish Premier Super League - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus or North Cyprus , officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , is a self-declared state that comprises the northeastern part of the island of Cyprus...

 - Turkish War of Independence

Turkish War of Independence

The Turkish War of Independence was a war of independence waged by Turkish nationalists against the Allies, after the country was partitioned by the Allies following the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I...

 - Turks in Bulgaria

Turks in Bulgaria

The Turks in Bulgaria number 588,318 people and constitute 8.8% of those who declared their ethnic group and 8.0% of the total population according to the 2011 Bulgarian census. 605,802 persons or 9.1% of the population pointed Turkish language as their mother tongue. They are also the largest...

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Ulubatli Hasan

Ulubatli Hasan

Ulubatlı Hasan was a Timarli Sipâhî in the service of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire who achieved legendary status as a heroic Turkish martyr at the successful Siege of Constantinople....

 - Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Bek was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His commonly-known name is not truly a personal name, but rather a moniker, which can be loosely translated as "Great Ruler" or "Patriarch Ruler" and was the Turkic equivalent of Timur's Perso-Arabic title Amīr-e...

 - Uluj Ali

Uluj Ali

Uluj Ali was an Italian by birth who converted to Islam, became a pirate, and later became an Ottoman admiral and Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Fleet in the 16th century.He was also known by several other names in...

 - Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects

Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects

The union of chambers of Turkish architects and engineers is a confederation of all chambers of architects and engineers in Turkey.. The union had been founded in 1954....

 - Uşak Province

Usak Province

Uşak is a province in western Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Manisa to the west, Denizli to the south, Afyon to the east, and Kütahya to the north. The provincial capital is Uşak, and its traffic code is 64. The province covers an area of 5,341 km² and has a population of 335,860...

 - Uzuncaburç

Uzuncaburç

- Geography :Uzuncaburç is in the rural area of Silifke district which is a part of Mersin Province. It is located in the valleys of Toros Mountains at the north of Silifke with an altitude of . The coordinates of the mid town are . The highway distance to Silifke is and to Mersin is...

 - Uzun Hassan

Uzun Hassan

Uzun Hasan or Hassan , Sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty, or White Sheep Turkmen. Hassan ruled in parts of present-day western Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia between 1453 and 1478....

 - Urartu

Urartu

Urartu , corresponding to Ararat or Kingdom of Van was an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highland....

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Yağlı güreş

Yagli güres

Oil wrestling , also called grease wrestling, is the Turkish national sport. It is so called because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. It is related to the Uzbeki kurash, Tuvan khuresh and Tatar köräş...

 - Yalova

Yalova

Yalova is a city located in northwestern Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara, and is the capital of the Yalova Province. Yalova has a city population of 92,166, while the population of the Yalova Province is 202,531. as of 2009...

 - Yalova Province

Yalova Province

Yalova Province is a province in northwestern Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa to the south and Kocaeli to the east. The provincial capital is the city of Yalova. The population of the Yalova Province is 203,741...

 - Yapıntı

Yapıntı

Yapıntı is a village in Mut district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It is at on the state highway just at the lower end of a long ramp from Sertavul Pass. The distance to Mut is and to Mersin is . Population of Yapıntı is 1058. as of 2010....

 - Yaşar Kemal

Yasar Kemal

Yaşar Kemal, is a Turkish writer. He is one of Turkey's leading writers. He has long been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, on the strength of Memed, My Hawk....

 - Yayla

Yayla (resort)

Yayla is a name given to the summer mountain resorts in Turkey.- Etymology :Nomadic herdsmen of Turkic origin used to call their herding locations by different names depending on the season. Yazlak, yaylak, güzlek and kışlak referred to herding locations of different seasons of the year...

 - Yedi Göller - Yenice

Yenice, Mersin

- Geography :Yenice is a part of Tarsus district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province.It is in the extreme east of the province at . It is from Tarsus and from Mersin. Mediterranean coast is about to south. The population of the town is 8 393...

 - Yenişehir, Mersin - Yeniyurt Castle

Yeniyurt Castle

Yeniyurt Castle is a castle ruin in Mersin Province, Turkey. The ancient name of the castle is not known. Yeniyurt is the name of a nearby village.- Geography :...

 - Yerliyya

Yerliyya

In the Ottoman Empire of the 17th century the yerliyya was a term used to describe local Janissaries. These were Janissaries that had been sent to an urban centre many years ago and had become fully integrated into their surroundings, often playing important roles in the commercial and political...

 - Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant

Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant

Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant is a plant used to supply drinking water to İstanbul, Turkey.- İstanbul :The total population of İstanbul is 12 782 960 which makes İstanbul as one of the most populous cities of the world.. The rate of annual increase of this figure is about 3.45 % and the water...

 - Yeşildere

Yeşildere

- Geography :Yeşildere at is east of Karaman. The town is situated at the south Toros Mountains along the valley of İbrala rivulet. The population of the town is 1264 and is on the decrease.- History :...

 - Yeşilovacık

Yeşilovacık

Yeşilovacık is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey.-Geography:Yeşilovacık is a Mediterranean coastal town at .It is a part of Silifke district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. The town is...

 - Yıldız Palace

Yildiz Palace

Yıldız Palace is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the Sultan and his court in the late 19th century.- Origin :...

 - Yılmaz Güney

Yilmaz Güney

Yılmaz Güney, was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor from Turkey. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey.- Biography :...

 - Young Turks

Young Turks

The Young Turks , from French: Les Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favouring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Sultan and favoured a re-installation of the short-lived Kanûn-ı Esâsî constitution...

 - Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...

 - Youth Party (Turkey) - Yozgat

Yozgat

Yozgat is a city and the capital district of Yozgat province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2009 census, population of the district is 113,614 of which 73,835 live in the city of Yozgat.-History:...

 - Yozgat Province

Yozgat Province

Yozgat Province is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Çorum to the northwest, Kırıkkale to the west, Kırşehir to the southwest, Nevşehir to the south, Kayseri to the southeast, Sivas to the east, Tokat to the northeast, and Amasya to the north...

 - Yukuk Shad

Yukuk Shad

Yukuk Shad was a Turkic ruler reigned in the final days of the Western Turkic Khanate. His name Yukuk means Snow Leopard and title Shad means prince.- Early days :...

 - Yumuktepe

Yumuktepe

Yumuktepe is a tumulus at within the city borders of Mersin, Turkey. In 1936 the tumulus was at the outskirts of Mersin. But after the rapid increase of population, now the tumulus is in the Toroslar municipality of Mersin....

 - Yunus Emre

Yunus Emre

Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present...

 - Yusuf Akçura

Yusuf Akçura

Yusuf Akçura was a prominent Tatar activist and ideologue of Turanism in the late Ottoman Empire.-Biography:He was born in Ulyanovsk, Russia to a Tatar family and lived there until he and his mother emigrated to Turkey when he was seven...

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Zeki Muren

Zeki Müren

Zeki Müren was a prominent Turkish singer, composer and actor. He was famous for his compelling voice and precise articulation in his singing of both established Turkish classical music and contemporary songs.-Biography:Müren grew up in the provincial capital city of Bursa in western Turkey...

 - Zeki Sezer

Zeki Sezer

Mehmet Zeki Sezer is a Turkish politician and former chairman of the Democratic Left Party , he was elected in the 6th ordinary party congress in 2004 after the resignation of Bülent Ecevit....

 - Zeki Velidi Togan

Zeki Velidi Togan

Zeki Velidi Togan was a historian, Turkologist, and leader of the Bashkir revolutionary and liberation movement.-Biography:He was born in Koedhoen village of Sterlitamak uyezd, today Bashkortostan....

 - Zekiye Keskin Satir

Zekiye Keskin Satir

Zekiye Keskin Şatır, born on 10 June 1976 in Istanbul) is a Turkish athlete competing in archery. She is coached by Cumhur Yavaş and is a member of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Sport Club.-2004 Summer Olympics:...

 - Zeyne

Zeyne

- Geography :Zeyne at is a part of Gülnar district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. It is west of Göksu River with an altitude of Distance to Gülnar is and to Mersin is The population is 1882 as of 2010.- History :...

 - Zeynel Abidin Erdem

Zeynel Abidin Erdem

Dr. Zeynel Abidin Erdem is a Turkish business tycoon and the honorary consul of the Kingdom of Spain to the Marmara Region of Turkey and the honorary consul of the Republic of Sudan to the Republic of Turkey. He was born on the 15th of February 1944 in Savur, Mardin, Turkey...

 - Ziya Gökalp

Ziya Gökalp

Ziya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and political activist. In 1908, after the Young Turk revolution, he adopted the pen name Gökalp , which he retained for the rest of his life...

 - Zonguldak

Zonguldak

Zonguldak is a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Its population, according to the 2009 census, was 108,792. It is an important port on the Black Sea because of the coal mining in Zonguldak Province...

 - Zonguldak Province

Zonguldak Province

Zonguldak Province is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. The province is 3.481 km² in size and has a population of 619,703 Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük to the southeast, and Bartın to the east...

 - Zorkun

Zorkun

Zorkun is a yayla in Osmaniye Province, Turkey.Zorkun is at on the Nur Mountains, a chain mountain running in north -south direction, parallel to East Mediterranean coast. It is at an average altitute of about and surrounded by forests of pine and juniper. Zorkun is on the south east of...

 - Zübeyde Hanım

Zübeyde Hanim

Zübeyde Hanım was the mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey. She was the only daughter of the Hacısofular family which included her two brothers...