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My name is Ada and I'am here to talk about Turkey. Turkey is a really hot country and is quite historical. The countrys bordered with Bulgaria, Greece, Syria, Romania and Eygpt. Turkey officially the Republic of Turkey, located mainly on the Anatoliam peninsula in Western Asia. There is a small bit of Turkey in the Southeastern Europe. There are 81 counties in Turkey. The area of Turkey is 783,562 km2. The capital city is Ankara. The highest point in Turkey is Mount Ararat. The population is 83,154,997.

Turkish Food and Sweets

Turkey has thousands types of different food. For example there are some desserts called keşkül which is a almond based milk pudding. Then there is this delicouse thing called lokma which is deep fried dough saoked in syrup or drizzeled in honey.

This is something called Manti. In Ireland it is known as Turkish dumplings. Manti is a tiny homemade pastery filled with ground beef, cooked in water and served with yougurt and sauce. It is a hard dish to make because you need skill and it takes ages.

Ingredients,

For the dough you need these, flour,

egg, salt and water.

As for the Beef filling you need, ground beef, onion, parsly and spices optional and you can use tomato or pepper paste too.

1. First you need a bit of dough.

2. Roll the dough witha rolling pin not very thin about 2mm.

3. Cut in strips then into small squares.

4. Then put a bit of meat on top of each square.

5. Get the square and combine all edges.

6. Next you have this bundle of shapes.

7. It takes no longer than 15- 20 mins to finish 1 peice of dough.

8. Then it is ready to eat and Enjoy.
   

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The natoinal Anthem of turkey Istilâl marşı

Turkish version English version

Istiklal Marşı

Istıklal Marşı transalates to Independence March. The Anthem of Turkey was nationaly adopted on the 12 March 1921. It was made as motivational musical saga for the troop fight in the Turkish War for Independence.

The poem by Mehmet Akif Ersoy and composed by Osman Zeki Güngör and Edgar Manas. The theme is for the Turkish homeland, free land and faith.

A framed version of the National Anthem typically occupies the walls of every classroom in Turkish schools.

Before the officially dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, a national wide competition was hold in 1921 by the Turkish National movement which was held by Atatürk.

The Ottoman Empire was due to treason for the lose of of homeland after the war. The goal of the competition was to select an original poem suited to the Anthem.

A total of 724 poems were submitted. A well known poet called Mehmet Akif Ersoy won but disagreed to get the money of the prize.

Turkey's history The Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire was since its foundation in c. 1299 rulled as a Monarchy. Between 1839 and 1876 the empire The Empire went through a period of reforming. The young Ottomans were dissatisfied with the change's Sultan Abdulmejid ll had made.

A couple of decades later a new reform movement under the name Young Turks went against Sultan Abdulmejid ll who was still in charge of the Empire. The Young Turks started a revolution. Then in 1914 the Ottoman Empire entered World War 1 on the side of Central powers as an ally of the German Empire.

They lost the war. The goal was to win territories in the East to make up for the lose in the West in previous years, in the Balkan War. In 1918 the leaders of the young Turks took full responsibility for the lose of war and fled to exile leaving the country in chaos.

Within days French and British troops started occupying the remaning teritorys controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Greeks and Armenians irregulary motivated Young Turks to start a movement led by Mustfa Kemal Atatürk. Atatürk is celebrated every day in Turkey for saving Turkey. He saved Turkey with going against the gonverment who was willing to give the remanings of Turkey. But Atatürk stood and kept on fighting in the end defeating the British and French with his army.

Here are some of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire

Mountains

Turkish music

The music of Turkey mainly includes elements as well as some influnces from central Asia folk music, Arabic music and Persain music.

The roots of traditional music in Turkey spans across centuries to a time when the Selijuk Turks migarated to to Antolia and Persain the 11 century.

Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in Ethenic style of Greeks, Armenians, Albanians, Azira and Jewish.

Rivers of Turkey

Turkish dance

Religions

Turkey has been home to all three religons Judaism, christianity and Islam for centurys. 99 precent of Turkeys people today are Muslim and Turkeys history is mainly of the islamic people and their empires, arts and architecture.

Iststanbul is also the historic place of Ecumenical Patiarchate of Conistanople and still has a number of active Orthodox Christin churchs.

The Roman Catholic church has some churchs and activities as do small groups of Protestants.

The Assyrian Orthodox church, headed by a patriarch resident in damascus syria, has some active churchs and monasteries in southeastern Turkey near Madirn.

Thanks for watching my project. I highly recommend you to go to Turkey if you want to go to the beach and get tanned. Hope you enjoyed my project.