Turkey
Turkey is a country located on the border of Southeast Europe and West Asia.
Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic, financial, cultural and historical centre.
Population: 85,816,199 (2023)
Area: 783 562 km²
President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Currency: Turkish Lira
National flower: tulip
National bird: redwing
National tree: Turkey oak
National animal: grey wolf
National sport: oil or grease wrestling
National food: Turkish kebab
Turkey has no official national emblem, but the crescent and star design from the national flag is in use as the de facto national emblem on Turkish passports, Turkish identity cards and at the diplomatic missions of Turkey.
İzmir is a city in western Turkey and the third largest city in Turkey. İzmir is a metropolitan city on the west coast of Anatolia, and the capital of İzmir Province. The earlier Greek name of İzmir was Smyrna.
It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara, and the largest urban agglomeration on the Aegean Sea. In 2019, the city of İzmir had a population of 2,965,900, while İzmir Province had a total population of 4,367,251.
İzmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history, and up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period.
In classical antiquity, the city was known as Smyrna – a name that remained in use in English and various other languages until around 1930, when government efforts led the original Greek name to be gradually phased out internationally in favour of its Turkish counterpart İzmir.
The most representative image of Izmir is the clock tower in Konak.
Urla is home to one of the three quarantine islands on the globe.
Izmir was home to several notable philosophers.
Izmir was home to one of the seven wonders of the world.
Izmir is home to the oldest olive oil factory in the world.
The first known women's protest in history was led by Izmir women.
One of Turkey's holy pilgrimage sites is the House of the Virgin Mary.
A school in Izmir, Turkey. The school has 19 classrooms, 31 teachers, and 672 students. Akın Sertbaş is the school´s principal.
The school's vision is to direct the future in the light of original and devoted work.
The school's mission: The School's mission is to raise our children, who are the custodians of our future, as individuals who are self-confident, full of love and awareness of the flag and homeland Ataturk, who know the moral values of the society, who can express themselves well, who are aware of what is happening in the world, who respect themselves and others, and by ensuring student - parent-school cooperation, to create a modern and developed society by educating parents when necessary.
The school hours are 07:40-18:40. morning - 07:40 - 13:20; lunch - 13:50 - 18:40).
The foreign language they learn is English.
The sports activities include volleyball, football, badminton, and folk dances.