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CELEBRATIONS IN TURKEY

23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day

The only national holiday in the world given to children. It is the anniversary of the date when the Turkish parliament was opened.

May 19 Youth And Sports Day

It is the anniversary of the start of the Turkish War of Independence.

Feast of Ramadan

Ramadan is a holy month of fasting for Muslims. Celebrations at the end of this month are called Feast of Ramadan.

LANDMARKS OF TURKEY

Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC.

Aspendos Ancient Theater is used today for movie shows and open-air shows. The Theater stay from Rome. This Theater is located in Serik district of Antalya province of Turkey.

Topkapi Palace, the residence of the Ottoman Sultans is the administrative and educational center of the state.

Basilica Cistern, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The cistern was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.

Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who is very valuable to the Turkish people. It is located in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, and was opened on November 10, 1953.

FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM TURKEY

Fazıl Say is a Turkish pianist and
composer. He was appointed by the European Union with the title of "Cultural Ambassador"

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; (1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, (born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, cinematographer, screenwriter and actor and film director best known for the Palme d'Or winning Winter Sleep (2014). He has Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award.

Aziz Sancar (born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair

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