Category: Asia

According to smber, relevant discoveries have been made concerning all periods of Anatolian archeology. As regards the lower Paleolithic, the cave of Yarımburgaz, 20 km west of Istanbul, should be mentioned in particular; moreover in 1985 the excavations of Karain near Antalya were resumed, where the levels of the Middle Paleolithic are still investigated. The […]

Architecture. – Thanks to the civil acceleration impressed, starting from the Thirties, by Kemal Atatürk, Turkey is perfectly aligned with the contemporary architectural excursus of the West, without however forgetting in any case its own historical and social peculiarities. The invitation addressed by President Atatürk to several exponents of the modern movement to collaborate in […]

In Turkey modern art, in the western sense of the term, has a past of just a century. In the Ottoman era, the Islamic prohibition of representing the human figure, the negative attitude of fanatical religious circles as well as the country’s delay in participating in the industrial revolution hampered the development of art in […]

Turkish cinema, which in November 2014 celebrated the centenary of its birth, has enjoyed a renewed splendor in recent years which is reflected not only in the large number of productions, but also in a growing academic interest and in the significant presence of cinema in prestigious international reviews and festivals dedicated to it, such […]

According to findjobdescriptions, the clear winner of the electoral battle was therefore the AKP, which in recent years has played its game with skill and a lot of unscrupulousness, the characteristics of its own leader. It is necessary to go to Kayseri, ancient Caesarea, in the heart of the most industrious Anatolia, to discover the […]

Grown considerably during the Second World War, and profoundly modernized in its structures thanks to the help of the United States, the army was seen by young officers above all as an instrument of national unity and progress, in substantial continuity with the vision of the secularized state that had inspired Ataturk’s reforms. General Gursel […]

THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN Turkey After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War and the detachment of all Arab territories (➔ Ottoman, Empire), the Entente powers placed İstanbul under their protection, occupying some parts of properly Turkish territory. The rebellion of sectors of the army strengthened after the Greek invasion […]

Turkey, following the cession by France of the territory of Hatay (see below, and hatay, in this App.), Now measures 767,119 sq km. Physical conditions. – European geographers, to designate the regions of Turkey still use the ancient Greek names (Cilicia, Cappadocia, Misia, Caria, etc.), but a congress of Turkish geographers (June 1941) established the […]

Economy Turkey, the 18th largest economy in the world in 2015, has experienced almost uninterrupted growth over the past 25 years. At the heart of the ‘Vision 2023’, which sets out the government’s medium-term projects, lies the goal of bringing Turkey among the top ten economies in the world by 2023, the year of the […]

But in light of the election result, what has been called a cyber-coup, a virtual coup, ended up turning into a boomerang for the generals. The response from the polls, the senior officials themselves admitted, was very clear. Erdogan’s AKP got 46.6% of the favors (with 340 deputies in Parliament), the Social Democrats of the […]

According to a2zdirectory, the cyber-coup, however a notable evolution compared to the three bloody coups that took place in the past (1960, 1971, 1980) and the so-called ‘white’ (bloodless) one in 1997, seemed successful. Gul could not find the necessary votes in the Assembly for his formal election and the Social Democratic opposition close to the […]

Population According to 800zipcodes, in 1998 the Turkish population was 64,479. 000 residents and still tends to increase at a rapid pace: the growth rate during the 1990s remained around 18‰ annually. The distribution of the population has accentuated its characteristics of irregularity: the greatest demographic concentrations occur in the European part (in particular in […]

Business According to directoryaah, the Turkish economy is characterized by a strong gap between the industrially developed west and the structurally weak, mainly agrarian east as well as in western Anatolia between urban centers and rural periphery. Internationally, a stronger focus on Russia and the expansion of the Turkish sphere of influence to the Central […]