TURKEY

General information• Total population - 72,220

• Life expectancy - 69

• National currency- lira

• GDP per capital(ppp) us$ - 6772

• Area: Total: 780,580 SQ KM water: 9,820 SQ KM land: 770,760 SQ KM

Landscape

Turkey consists of many different terrains hills, flatlands and hillside views that you could never imagine.

The land is full of nitrogen so it is an ideal place to farm its just finding a flat place to farm

Wonders of turkey• Blue Mosque, Sultanahmet Camii

• between 1609-1616 during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Ahmet I, the enormous complex also included a hospital, caravansary, public kitchen, marketplace, schools and the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmet I. The mosque's immense interior, flooded with sunlight streaming through 260 windows, is decorated with more than 20,000 precious Iznik tiles detailing traditional flowers of

Ottoman design.

INTERESTING FACTS

• The famous Trojan Wars took place in Western Turkey, around the site where the Trojan horse rests today.

-Tradition in Turkey says that a stranger at one’s doorstep is considered "God’s guest" for at least three days

-The oldest known human settlement is in catalhoyuk, Turkey (7th Millenium B.C.)

-The first church built by man (st.peter’s Church) is in Antioch turkey.

Education

School life expectancy(Years)- 12.9Gross intake ratio to last grade of primary- 90.1

Turkey's education system needs to better prepare Turks for a future world of greater competition and global markets. To do this, a thorough restructuring must take place, and soon Turkey's primary and secondary education system has always been mired in rote learning. Admittedly, and this is the case in most countries, Turkish children with access to good schools excel in math, especially when compared to their North American counterparts. For most of these children however, such skills are employed only to qualify for admission into elite secondary schools and universities

Students almost never choose their career paths according to interest or ability. University admissions (as in all Civil Law countries, law is an undergraduate course of study) proceed from the results of a single test, for which students prepare by attending years of crammers and tutors.

Problems in education in turkey

• ISTANBUL –– Five months ago, a Turkish court sentenced Nuray Canan Bezirgan, 23, to six months in jail for "obstructing the education of others." Her crime: wearing a head scarf to her college final exams.

• In the past two years, more than 25,000 women have been barred from Turkey's college campuses because they refused to remove the head scarves they wear as part of Muslim tradition, according to Turkish human rights groups. Hundreds of government employees have been fired, demoted or transferred for the same reason. And this school year, the government has extended the ban to Islamic religious schools, prompting some Muslim girls to drop out.