Turkey Related Links

From A to Z about Turkey http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/countries/turkey.html (This is one of best sites about Turkey.)

http://www.turkishodyssey.com

http://www.turkeyinphotos.com/turkey_travel_guide.html

http://www.tacaonline.org/info.htm (This has all sorts of good information about Turkey)

For the latest news from the Turkish point of view you may check out the following site: http://www.ataa.org

http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Turkey This site includes a search engine of current events in Turkey. An excellent resource for catching up on what is happening.

http://www.hitit.co.uk/CultTk.html Basic information on Turkish culture with photos.

A discussion of altered states of consciousness, comparing those achieved without drugs through religious experience to the drug induced experiences of the 1960's generation. Includes newspaper editorials about the whirling dervishes from Turkey. http://www.sufism.org/society/articles/sobriety.html

Turn on your computer's speakers! This site provides an introduction to the Turkish language including common phrases. Each term is shown and spoken for the visitor. http://www.exploreturkey.com

This site provides a tour of Turkey through photographs. Business and travel information is also available. Since the recent earthquake, information for making donations has been added.
http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/turkey1.htm

This site provides an excellent reference map of Turkey.
http://www.turkishmusic.org

Women in Contemporary Turkey
http://www.accd.edu/pac/humaniti/1301_tc/xornelas/T.htm

Mariana Ornelas, a faculty member in the Humanities department, received a Fulbright grant this summer to visit Turkey and explore women's issues there. The result is a fascinating website, filled with photographs she took and information on women and carpet weaving, Gecekondu women, professional women, women politicians and women activists. The following site is provided by the U.S. consulate in Turkey. http://usconsulate-istanbul.org.tr/turkey.html

To purchase the books on Turkey, check out the following sites:
http://www2.egenet.com.tr/mastersj/books-on-turkish-in-turkish.html

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Biographies

A longer profile of the man, in Turkish: http://www.cankaya.gov.tr/demirel.htm

Find a biography of Demirel's successor as president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, in a May 2000 edition of Newspot: http://www.byegm.gov.tr/yayinlarimiz/NEWSPOT/2000/May/N5.htm

Newspot ran the following biography of mer zg , new Speaker of Turkey's Grand National Assembly: http://www.byegm.gov.tr/yayinlarimiz/NEWSPOT/2000/Nov-Dec/N1.htm

Turkey's official Newspot magazine profiled an influential Education Minister of the past, Hasan-Ali Y cel, in a March/April 2001 edition: http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/newspot/2001/mar_apr/n22.htm

Yahoo has collated eight sites devoted to Turkey's Kurdish rebel, Abdullah Ocalan: http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/Kurdish/Ocalan__Abdullah/

Country Study: Turkey (Library of Congress) January 1995

Portals to the World: Turkey (Library of Congress)

Background Notes: Turkey (U.S. Dept. of State) October 2003

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Turkey (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

Consular Information Sheets / Travel Warnings - Turkey (U.S. Dept. of State)

Country Information: Turkey (U.S. Dept. of State)

Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices - Turkey (U.S. Dept. of State) in PDF

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey (U.S. Dept. of State)

Diplomatic List (U.S. Dept. of State)

Economic Briefing: Turkey (The Economist)

Embassy of Turkey, Washington

Governments on the WWW: Turkey (Gunnar Anzinger)

Human Rights in Turkey (Amnesty International)

International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Turkey (U.S. Dept. of State)

NATIONAL LIBRARY: Millî Kütüphane

National Libraries of Europe: Turkey (British Library)

NEWS: BBC World - Europe; BBC Turkish

U.S. Embassy, Ankara (U.S. Dept. of State)

World Factbook: Turkey (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Turkey (Google); Turkey (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: Turkey (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Turkey (University of Texas, Austin)