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Experienced Professional Tour Guide in Kusadasi Faruk Ozer. I have the license to guide in three languages-English, German and Polish. I consider my self as an experienced, friendly and knowledable tour guide who can offer both a tour guide’s insight into Turkey and life experience.
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CAPITAL CITY OF Turkey: Ankara LANGUAGE OF Turkey: Turkish CURRENCY OF Turkey: New Turkish Lira (YTL) COMMENTS ABOUT Turkey: Turkey is located on the Mediterranean, in the Anatolian region of West Asia Cities : Ankara (capital), Antalya, Bursa, Edirne, Istanbul, Izmir, Konya, Sinop, Trabzon Best Places : Bergama, Bozcaada, Bodrum, Beypazarı, Datça, Göreme, Hasankeyf, Marmaris, Olympos, Safranbolu Electricity : 220V/50Hz (European plug) Calling Code : +90 Time Zone : UTC +2 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, but 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. CLIMATE OF Turkey: temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior RELIGION OF Turkey: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews) POPULATION OF Turkey: 69,660,559 (July 2005 est.)>> ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Turkey: Turkey's dynamic economy is a complex mix of modern industry and commerce along with a traditional agriculture sector that in 2004 still accounted for more than 35% of employment. It has a strong and rapidly growing private sector, yet the state still plays a major role in basic industry, banking, transport, and communication. The largest industrial sector is textiles and clothing, which accounts for one-third of industrial employment; it faces stiff competition in international markets with the end of the global quota system. However, other sectors, notably the automotive and electronics industries, are rising in importance within Turkey's export mix. In recent years the economic situation has been marked by erratic economic growth and serious imbalances. Real GNP growth has exceeded 6% in many years, but this strong expansion has been interrupted by sharp declines in output in 1994, 1999, and 2001. Inflation, in recent years in the high double-digit range, fell to 9.3% by 2004 - a 30-year low. Despite these strong economic gains in 2002-04, which were largely due to renewed investor interest in emerging markets, IMF backing, and tighter fiscal policy, the economy is still plagued with high debt and deficits. The public sector fiscal deficit exceeds 6% of GDP - due in large part to the huge burden of interest payments, which accounted for more than 40% of central government spending in 2004, and to populist spending. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Turkey remains low - averaging less than $1 billion annually, but further economic and judicial reforms and prospective EU membership are expected to boost FDI. A major political and economic issue over the next decade is whether or not Turkey will become a member of the EU. |
Private Guide in Kusadasi - Faruk Ozer (Member Since 2007) ![]() Experienced Professional Tour Guide in Kusadasi Faruk Ozer. I was born in Izmir in the Aegean Region-the cradle of civilizations-in 1953. I graduated from the Aegean University, the Faculty of Economical... Private Guide in Istanbul - Dr.Burhan (Member Since 2009) Languages: English, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic Hello!This is Burhan from Istanbul, Turkey. I was born in Ankara, capital of Turkey.Educated in Turkey, Australia and Pakistan; having Dip.Ed., MBA and PhD in Linguistics, respectively.Licensed as Professional... Private Guide in Istanbul - LEVEND (Member Since 2009) Languages: English, German Private tour guiding for special tours designed by my guests themselves, very special events and culturel hapennings in Turkey.Birth Place and Date: Ankara, 10/06/1963Turkish-Native Speaker English-Advanced... Private Guide in Aksaray - Mustafa Kocyigit (Member Since 2008) Languages: English, German, Turkish I have been grew up in the region of "Cappadocia" and have worked in different agencies here. I also attended to many tours not only in this region but in the whole country as well.I am still a young... Private Guide in Istanbul - Treasures of Turkey (Member Since 2010) Languages: english Hi there, i was born in izmir,on the southwestern part of turkey,which is known as the city of the infidel,in 01/16/1972. I have been living in istanbul since 1992 and i am an istanbul man now. I love this... Private Guide in Antalya - Turkey - craddle of civilization (Member Since 2010) Languages: German , English In1962 i was born in Istanbul. With the age of 3 i moved with my parents to Germany. For over 25 years we lived nearby to Stuttgart and there i also got my education. In 1992 i came back to Turkey and since... |
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