General information about Turkey

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02/28/2011 General information about Turkey

Country name:

conventional long form: Republic of Turkey

conventional short form: Turkey

local long form: Turkiye Cumhuriyeti

local short form: Turkiye

Location: Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria

Geographic coordinates: 39 00 N, 35 00 E

Map references: Middle East

Area: total: 783,562 sq km country comparison to the world: 37 land: 769,632 sq km water: 13,930 sq km

Land boundaries: total: 2,648 km

border countries: Armenia 268 km, Azerbaijan 9 km, Bulgaria 240 km, Georgia 252 km, Greece 206 km, Iran 499 km, Iraq 352 km, Syria 822 km Coastline: 7,200 km

Climate: temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior

Terrain: high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges

Elevation extremes: lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Ararat 5,166 m

Natural resources: coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower

Land use: arable land: 29.81% permanent crops: 3.39% other: 66.8% (2005)

Irrigated land: 52,150 sq km (2003)

Total renewable water resources: 234 cu km (2003)

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): total: 39.78 cu km/yr (15%/11%/74%) per capita: 544 cu m/yr (2001)

Natural hazards: severe earthquakes, especially in northern Turkey, along an arc extending from the Sea of Marmara to Lake Van volcanism: Turkey experiences little volcanic activity; its three historically active volcanoes; Ararat, Nemrut Dagi, and Tendurek Dagi have not erupted since the 19th century or earlier

Government type: republican parliamentary democracy

Capital: name: Ankara

geographic coordinates: 39 56 N, 32 52 E

time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

Administrative divisions: 81 provinces (iller, singular - ili); Adana, Adiyaman, Afyonkarahisar, Agri, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydin, Balikesir, Bartin, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingol, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Canakkale, Cankiri, Corum, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Duzce, Edirne, Elazig, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskisehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gumushane, Hakkari, Hatay, Igdir, Isparta, Istanbul, Izmir (Smyrna), Kahramanmaras, Karabuk, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kilis, Kirikkale, Kirklareli, Kirsehir, Kocaeli, Konya, Kutahya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Mugla, Mus, Nevsehir, Nigde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Sanliurfa, Siirt, Sinop, Sirnak, Sivas, Tekirdag, Tokat, Trabzon (Trebizond), Tunceli, Usak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, Zonguldak

National holiday: Republic Day, 29 October (1923)

Legal system: civil law system derived from various European continental legal systems; note - member of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although Turkey claims limited derogations on the ratified European Convention on Human Rights; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Population: 77,804,122 (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 17

Age structure: 0-14 years: 27.2% (male 10,701,631/female 10,223,260) 15-64 years: 66.7% (male 25,896,326/female 25,327,403) 65 years and over: 6.1% (male 2,130,360/female 2,526,544) (2010 est.) Median age: total: 28.1 years male: 27.7 years female: 28.4 years (2010 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.272% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 97

Airports: 99 (2010) country comparison to the world: 60

Airports - with paved runways: total: 88 over 3,047 m: 16 2,438 to 3,047 m: 33 1,524 to 2,437 m: 19 914 to 1,523 m: 16 under 914 m: 4 (2010)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 11 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 6 under 914 m: 4 (2010)

Heliports: 20 (2010)

Pipelines: gas 10,630 km; oil 3,636 km (2009)

Railways: total: 8,697 km country comparison to the world: 23 standard gauge: 8,697 km 1.435-m gauge (1,920 km electrified) (2008)

Roadways: total: 352,046 km country comparison to the world: 19 paved: 313,151 km (includes 2,010 km of expressways) unpaved: 38,895 km (2008)

Waterways: 1,200 km (2008) country comparison to the world: 61

Merchant marine: total: 645 country comparison to the world: 18 by type: bulk carrier 95, cargo 290, chemical tanker 85, combination ore/oil 1, container 40, liquefied gas 6, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 59, petroleum tanker 31, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 34, specialized tanker 2 foreign-owned: 3 (Germany 1, Italy 2) registered in other countries: 686 (Albania 1, Antigua and Barbuda 7, Azerbaijan 1, Bahamas 3, Barbados 1, Belize 18, Cambodia 26, Comoros 16, Cook Islands 4, Dominica 1, Georgia 22, Italy 3, Kiribati 3, Liberia 15, Malta 211, Marshall Islands 72, Moldova 18, Mongolia 1, former Netherlands Antilles 8, Panama 79, Russia 104, Saint Kitts and Nevis 22, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 18, Sierra Leone 14, Slovakia 2, Tanzania 7, Togo 4, Turkmenistan 1, Tuvalu 1, UK 1, unknown 2) (2010).

Ports and terminals: Aliaga, Diliskelesi, Eregli, Izmir, Izmit (Kocaeli), Mercin (Icel), Limani, Yarimca

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In Turkey, the application will appear for tourists to find doctors who speak different languages

Turkish Ministry of Health plans in mid-December 2014 to launch mobile app for tourists lets you search for doctors working nearby who speak a particular language.

"Say you're a Swedish tourist, who came to Turkey, and your child fell and broke his leg. All you have to do is open the app and find Swedish-speaking orthopaedist who works nearby "- Hurriyet Daily News quoted the head of the Department of Health Development Minister Omer Tontusa.

The application will look for doctors within a radius of 30 km from the location of the user. If the matching results are found, the search range is expanded to 50 km. If the application can not find the expert, speaking in the target language, the user is prompted to turn to English-speaking doctors working nearby.

The application will be available in seven languages - English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Swedish and Arabic - and adapted as a smartphone and a tablet.

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The possibility of entry of Russians to Turkey on internal passports discussed

The Turkish Government is still considering the possibility of allowing the entry of Russian citizens on the territory of the country at domestic passports, confirmed to "Interfax" a Turkish diplomatic source.

"The Turkish government really is considering entering the citizens of Russia to Turkey via internal pacportam" - a spokesman said on Wednesday.

According to him, to enter Turkey without passports may already citizens of Germany, Belgium, France, Georgia, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Northern Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal and Greece.

"The proposal does not require passports with Russian tourists arrived by entrepreneurs in the tourism sector," - said the source.

Previously there were conflicting reports about the possibilities of such a decision of the Turkish government.

Thus, according to Turkish media, the new order of entry for citizens of the Russian Federation may be approved in the near future. At the same time, as stated by the portal "Interfax-Tourism" in the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish Embassy, ​​there do not have official confirmation of this information.