Turkey

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Turkey

• Mrs. Reed via Mrs. Barker
• 8th Grade Geography

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Objectives

• What is the history of the area that is now
  Turkey?
• What kind of government and economy does Turkey
  have?
• How is Turkish society divided?

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The Regions History

• Asia Minor was part of the Hittite and Persian
  Empires.
• 330s B.C. Alexander the Great conquers Asia
  Minor.

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• Later it was part of the Roman Empire. When the
  Roman Empire collapsed, this part of the Roman
  Empire became part of the Byzantine Empire.

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• Constantinople became the capital of the
  Byzantine Empire.

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1000 A.D.

• The Seljuks Turks invaded Asia Minor. The
  Seljuks were a nomadic people from Central Asia
  who converted to Islam.

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1453 A.D.

• The Ottoman Turks captured the city of
  Constantinople, making it their empires capital.

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1500s 1600s

• The Ottoman Empire controlled parts of North
  Africa, Southwest Asia, and southeastern Europe.

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World War I

• The Ottoman Turks backed the losing side in WWI.
  As a consequence, the Ottomans lost all their
  territory outside of what is now Turkey.

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Father of the Turks

• Out of the ashes of the post war the father of
  the Turks emerged. His name Kemal Ataturk, and
  he created modern day Turkey.

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Future of Turkey

• Ataturk modernized Turkey banned the fez, the
  traditional hat of Turkish men. New laws made it
  illegal for women to wear veils.

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• Ataturk believed that Turkey needed to modernize.
  He replaced the Arabic alphabet with the Latin
  alphabet. The European calendar and metric
  system replaced Islamic ones.

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Government

• Turkey is a democracy with a national legislature
  called the National Assembly. Turkey is a
  secular state, church and state are separate.

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Economy

• Turkeys economy includes factories and farming
  with related fields of employment.

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Dams

• Turkey has begun building dams on the Tigris and
  Euphrates rivers which is the country of their
  origin. Syria and Iraq worry about others
  controlling their water supply.

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People

• Ethnic Turks make up 80 of Turkeys population.
  Kurds make-up roughly 20 of its population.

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Modernization

• Modernization has created a split between middle
  class city dwellers and rural Turks. Village
  Turks are more traditional

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Turkish Cooking

• Turkish cooking resembles Mediterranean cooking
  with olives, vegetables, cheese, yogurt and
  bread. Shish kebab-grilled meat on a skewer-is a
  favorite Turkish dish.