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Website. bogazici.edu.tr. Boğaziçi University (Turkish: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, [5] is a prominent public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational institution, Robert College. Robert College was the first American college to be founded outside the United ...
Industry. Istanbul is the "industrial center" of Turkey. It employs approximately 20% of Turkey's industrial labor and contributes 38% of Turkey's industrial workspace. In addition, the city generates 55% of Turkey's trade and 45% of the country's wholesale trade, and generates 21.2% of Turkey's gross national product.
Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
2016 Turkish coup attempt. Image showing a coup attempt plot in Turkey's borders. On 15 July 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, [33] attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [34] They attempted to seize control of ...
765.5 ha (1,892 acres) Istanbul[b] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey, [3] and is the most populous city in ...
Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. [1] Education in Turkey is governed by a national system which was established in accordance with Atatürk's Reforms. It is a state-supervised system ...
Ankara. Ankara[b] is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province. [5][4] Ankara is Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul by population, first by urban area (4,130 km 2), and third by metro area (25,632 km 2). Serving as the ...
The Turkish Cypriot community were the only Muslims acceptable under the White Australia Policy; [278] many of these early immigrants found jobs working in factories, out in the fields, or building national infrastructure. [279] In 1967, the governments of Australia and Turkey signed an agreement to allow Turkish citizens to immigrate to ...