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Turkey
Capital:
Ankara
Language:
Turkish
Area: 780580km²
Population: 71893000
Currency: Turkish lira (TRY)
Cities of Turkey
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Interesting places of Turkey

Topkapi Palace
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The Column of Julianus
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Blue Mosque
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Saint Sophia
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Turkey

Turkey is located on the coast of the Black sea, sea of Marmara, Aegean sea, and the Mediterranean sea. The bigest city is Istambul. After it folows capital Ancara.  
     
For visitors big sities offer a great number of museums and famous hitorical sities. Of course not forgeting nightclubs, taverns and bazaars, filled with thousends souvenirs, carpets, gold jewelry, nationals garments...
    
Most visitors want to experience the old part of the city. The churches, synagogues and mosques are still found side by side in the old city center. Then there are the smaller sites, both sacred and ordinary, but profound meaning – monasteries, tombs of local saints, heroes, artists or poets, mosques, churches, walls, fortresses, palaces, fountains and cemeteries. The New city center revolves around highrise, internationally-styled office buildings, luxury hotels, exclusive restaurants and bars, fashionable shopping districts.
    
When you are traveling, you must try and local cuisine. Turkish cuisine ranks with French and Chinese in its variety, nutrition and finesse. There eating is a long and relishes process. During a typical after dinner gathering coffee, tea, candies, cookies, pastries and fruits are served. 
     
Holiday villages line the coast in the popular Kemer-Antalya region. A good selection of charter gulettes, motor yachts and sailboats are available for week tours, smaller boats can be rented for day trips. If you want, you can order an exciting trip from local salesmans. In that case they will take you from your hotel and treat you to lunch and take back at the hotel in the evening.
     
The best Turkey‘s beaches are down the Mediterranean sea from Dalyan till Alanya. There are a lot of deep gulfs and peninsulas in Marmara and Bodrum.

Troy, Efes, Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Van golu, Agri dag - Ararat, Anitkabir - Ataturk Muzesi and many other places is need to see in Turkey.



While beeing in Turkey, don‘t forget to bargain and don‘t show that you really need or like that thing. More the customer haggling with turk, more he likes him. If tomorrow you remember the name man‘s you have bought something and say „hi“ to him he will be very honoured and be your friend till the end of  his days. 

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