TURKEY’S FAUNA
The diversity of fauna in Turkey is even greater than its flora. While the number of species throughout Europe as a whole is around 60,000, in Turkey they number over…
TURKEY’S FLORA
Anatolia is one of the foremost world sources of plants which have been cultivated for food, and the wild ancestors of many plants which now provide staples for mankind still…
TULIPS OF TURKEY
Everybody thinks that tulips come from Holland. Actually, Tulips are native to Central Asia and Turkey. In the 16th Century they were brought to Holland from Turkey, and quickly became…
EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY
North-western Turkey, the county's most densely populated region and industrial heartland, has been struck by two massive earthquakes in less than three months in 1999. The first, on 17 August…
