Transcript parliamentary representative - School

•Turkey is officially referred to as “The Republic Of
Turkey”.
•It is a Eurasian country that stretches across the
Anatolian peninsula in South West Asia and the Balkan
region of South- Eastern Europe.
•It borders 8 countries:- *Bulgaria
*Greece
*Georgia
*Armenia
*Azerbaijan
*Iran
*Iraq
*Syria
•It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea
to the west, and the Black Sea to the north. Turkey also contains
the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers to mark the
border between Europe and Asia, which therefore makes Turkey
transcontinental.
Turkey is a parliamentary representative
democracy and since its foundation as a
republic in 1923, Turkey has developed a
strong tradition of secularism
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was
the founder and first
President of the Republic of
Turkey.
The head of state is
the President of the
Republic and has a
largely ceremonial
role. The president
is elected for a
seven-year term by
the parliament but
is not required to be
one of its members.
The current
President, Ahmet
Necdet Sezer, was
elected on May 16,
2000, after having
served as the
President of the
Constitutional
Court.
The Prime Minister is
generally the head of
the party that has
won the elections
and is elected by the
parliament through
a vote of confidence
in his government.
The current Prime
Minister is the
former mayor of
Istanbul- Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan
became the Prime
Minister of Turkey
on March 14, 2003.
He is the leader of
the Adalet ve
Kalkınma Partisi
(AKP, or Justice and
Development Party).
•The Turkish Armed Forces
is the second largest
standing armed force in
NATO, after the U.S. Armed
Forces with a combined
strength of 1,043,550
uniformed personnel
serving in its five branches.
•Every fit heterosexual
male Turkish citizen is
required to serve in the
military for time periods
ranging from three weeks to
fifteen months, depending
on his education and job
location, homosexuals have
the right to be exempt, if
they so request.
•Turkey has maintained forces in
international missions under the United
Nations and NATO since 1950, including
peacekeeping missions, various missions in
the former Yugoslavia, and support to
coalition forces in the First Gulf War.
•Turkey maintains 36,000 troops in the
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and
has had troops deployed in Afghanistan as
part of the U.S. stabilization force and the
UN-authorized, NATO-commanded
International Security Assistance Force
(ISAF) since 2001.
•In 2006, the Turkish parliament deployed a
peacekeeping force of Navy patrol vessels
and around 700 ground troops as part of an
expanded United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the wake of the IsraeliLebanon conflict.
•The GDP growth rate for 2005 was 7.4%, thus making Turkey one of the fastest growing
economies in the world.
•Turkey's GDP ranks 17th in the world, and Turkey is a member of G20 which brings together
the 20 largest economies of the globe.
•Turkey's economy is no longer dominated by traditional agricultural activities in the rural
areas, but more so by a highly dynamic industrial complex in the major cities, mostly
concentrated in the western provinces of the country, along with a developed services sector.
•The agricultural sector accounts for 11.9% of GDP, whereas industrial and service sectors make
up 23.7% and 64.5%, respectively.
•The tourism sector has experienced rapid growth in the last twenty years, and constitutes an
important part of the economy. In 2005, there were 24,124,501 visitors to the country, who
contributed 18.2 billion USD to Turkey's revenues.
•Other key sectors of the Turkish economy are construction, automotive industry, electronics
and textiles.
•In recent years, the chronically high inflation has been brought under control and this has led to the
launch of a new currency to cement the acquisition of the economic reforms and erase the vestiges
of an unstable economy. On January 1, 2005, the Turkish Lira was replaced by the New Turkish Lira
by dropping off six zeroes (1 YTL= 1,000,000 TL).