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Visitor Statistics for Turkey

6074 members visited,  68 members from Turkey with 7 members in  3 places

Latest Visitors to Turkey (6074) Swanhunter (04 Nov 2008)   silvesterscherz ( Nov 2008)   Sieto (25 Oct 2008)   Ericworld (24 Oct 2008)   Fremantlefred (21 Oct 2008)   dmerrifield69 (20 Oct 2008)   Kristoffer_D (19 Oct 2008)   hotbrianhot (05 Oct 2008)   cohenlux (01 Oct 2008)   dbrown007 (27 Sep 2008)   Members in Turkey (7) traveler63 (İzmir)   hakantutuncu (Istanbul)   rhondda (İstanbul)   vurali (Istanbul)   Joff (İstanbul)   TtRYaVuZ (Bursa)   laleyildirim (İzmir)   Members from Turkey (68) yasarureyil   ozge   hakantutuncu   ninika   aliakpinar   Senan   zakaria   mertece   ece   kilincarslan   Places in Turkey (3) with the most Members İstanbul (4 members) İzmir (2 members) Bursa (1 member) Countries visited by members from Turkey Germany (32 visitors) France (26 visitors) Netherlands (24 visitors) United Kingdom (24 visitors) United States of America (23 visitors) Spain (20 visitors) Italy (20 visitors) Turkey (19 visitors) Austria (17 visitors) Cyprus (16 visitors)

Travel Information for Turkey

	Travel Advice for Turkey Link to travel advice for Turkey from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
	Travel Health Information for Turkey Link to travel health information for Turkey from NHS Scoltand.
	Entry Requirements for Turkey Link to entry requirements for Turkey for British Citizens from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. If you are not a British Citizen, you should check with the appropriate embassy or diplomatic mission.

About Turkey

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the People's Congress of Kurdistan or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives. After the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey mainly to northern Iraq. In 2004, KGK announced an end to its ceasefire and attacks attributed to the KGK increased. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy enabling it to begin accession membership talks with the European Union.

Map of Turkey

News for Turkey

Testing the freezer-to-oven turkey - Atlanta Journal Constitution 2 hours 26 min ago
Blast, fire shut down southeast Turkish pipeline carrying oil from ... - Los Angeles Times 3 hours 29 min ago
Talking turkey, coast to coast - MSNBC 3 hours 53 min ago
Research Consortium to Sequence Turkey Genome - MarketWatch 4 hours 8 min ago
Group: Greece, Turkey failed to destroy mines - The Associated Press 5 hours 15 min ago
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