Factfile

Capital City
Largest City
Currency
Electricity
Language
Time Zone
Weights and Measurements
Emergency Numbers:
Ambulance
Fire
Police
Gendarme
Coast Security
Forest Fire
Flight Time
Highest Mountain Peak
International Dialing Code
Leaders:
President
Prime Minister
Population
Memberships:
United Nations
Organization of the Islamic Conference
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Council of Europe
NATO
Associate member of EU
G20
Public Holidays:
New Years Day
Sacrifice Festival
National Sovreignty Day
Ataturk Commemoration
Navy Day
Victory Day
Republic Day
Feast of Ramazan
Religion
Size:
Total Area
Total Coastline
Average Altitude
Highest Peak
Largest Lake

Ankara
Istanbul
New Turkish Lira (TRY)
220 volts a.c.
Turkish
GMT +2
Metric and Kilo system

112
110
155
156
158
177
Around four hours
5165m
+90

Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
71.1 million (UN 2006)








Since 1949
Since 1952
Since 1963


1st January
9th - 13th January
23rd April
19th May
1st July
30th August
28 and 29th October
22nd - 25th October
99% of Turkey is Muslim

814,578km²
8,333km
1,132m
5,165m
3,713km²