Turkey has a rich cultural tradition reflected in its traditional clothing, food, music, and habits. For clothing, early Turks wore leather boots, shirts, and riding trousers suitable for horseback riding. Head coverings provided protection from cold. Food is influenced by Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, featuring dishes like yogurt soup, spicy cheese, and lamb kebabs. Turkish classical music was influenced by Islamic cultures like Arabic and Persian, while folk music stems from rural Anatolian traditions. Popular pastimes include thermal spas, national parks, aqua parks, and the Istanbul zoo. Sports such as paragliding and skiing are also enjoyed. Traditional marriage customs involve gold gifts for brides and circumcised children.

1. TURKEY

2. TRADITIONAL CLOTHES:
• Sources indicate that central Asian Turks used to wear
leather boots, mintan shirt, a short caftan used with a belt
and a kind of riding trousers loose at the top narrowing
downwards suitable for horse riding. Caftan and boots also
gained significance as a sign of status.
• Bashlyks, head coverings, as in clothes, were made of fur or
sheepskin with the purpose of protection from the cold.
Bashlyks were also observed to be symbols of status.
• Emigration from Asia to Anatolia caused many cultures to
integrate. This was reflected on clothes, symbols and motifs
of the 24 Gagauz tribes which formed a united culture of
their own.

3. • The earliest sources found in the history of Turkish clothing
date back to the miniatures and wall pictures uncovered in
Central Asia. Sources of 100 B.C. reveal that woolen and
cotton fabric was woven on handlooms but silk came from
China.
• The Turkish way of living at that time brought about
functional clothing styles. As the horse was the common and
inevitable form of transport in the daily routine, women's
and men's wear resembled each other (unisex).
• Leather and felt materials had priority due to natural and
social conditions. In addition to these materials; shipskin, fur
and woolen materials were major constituents in clothes of
that period.

4. FOOD
Turkish cuisine is rich in whole arsenal of unforgettable
Mediterranean flavors. Chefs mostly use large quantities of
fresh produce, which, moreover, can be purchased only for
beautiful fair. How is the culture of the Mediterranean basin
will happen here primarily dominated by seafood, fish and fruits
and vegetables. For Turkey, the twentieth century, it had
flavors results of other nationalities because of limited trading
of water. It was only later that changed, and in large cities
were open several restaurants offering dishes on their menu
hailing from France or Italy. The most popular dishes of Turkish
cuisine, will no doubt be in Yogurt corbasi, yogurt or soup from
rice and legume seeds, fake, minced, in some areas served by a
huge amount of chili, or van otlu - spicy cheese, with a large
addition of spices herbs. In Turkish cooking meats definitely
dominates here lamb, which gives all possible ways.

5. Traditional flavors and dishes:
Sebzeli Ezme Kirmizi Mercimek Çorbasi (cream with red lentils and
vegetables) - based soup red lentils, carrots, onions, and tomato puree.
Tastes great with mint leaves. In some areas of Turkey, given to potatoes.
• yaprak Etla Dolmasi (minced meat in vine leaves) - Minced properly served
by the large quantities of tomatoes and of course all kinds of herbs and
spices. This dish with various meats, you can try almost every Turkish city.
• Simit - Turkey bun, served with sesame too.
• Lahmacun - Govannon pizza made by the Turkish manner, and administered
in accordance with the provision of the local cuisine of the state. It is made
of very thin dough and filling meat. Considered a snack at a local fast.
• Kebab - Who could travel to Turkey and not try the local real kebab.
Here is an excellent choice only between all the different types of dishes.
Most are fed with meat grilled with szpadce, but you can also find varieties
of kebab meat boiled or baked. Added is naturally large amounts of
vegetables, such as eggplants.
• Kofta - minced meat of all kinds. Of course, in some areas, amazing dish
is prepared without meat, bulgur replaced. This is the kind of food additive,
which was previously prepared with durum wheat mostly.
Other Turkish dishes are: Doner,Gozleme,Lahmacum,Kokorec and Hamsi.

6. MUSIC
The traditional music of Turkey consists of two major
traditions with distinct characteristics. The first is Turkish
folk music, characterized by the culture of the Turkish-
speaking rural communities of Anatolia, the Balkans, and the
Middle East. While Turkish folk music contains some traces
of the Central Asian cultures Turkic, has also strongly
influenced and been influenced by many other cultures in the
region. Second, on the other hand, is Turkish classical music,
which is characterized by the culture of the Ottoman elite,
strongly influenced by Islamic (mainly Arabic and Persian)
cultures, a trace of Indian music, but still contains traces of
Greco-Roman history of the area.

7. Turkish music history, which examines the relationship of
Turks with music from the time when the Turks first
emerged onto the world scene to the present day, is not a
science that one can undertake in detail. If history is
considered to begin with writing, the interval during which
the Turks have expressed themselves in writing covers only
the last 1,500 years. Unfortunately, we do not have any
sources relating to Turkish civilization of earlier periods.
Consequently, both Turkish history, as well as our data on
Turkish culture and arts, is extremely limited. Even if we
disregard for a moment the difficulty of writing about
Turkish music with no written records on the subject, as well
as the dearth of sources, it behooves us to state here some
other issues that are equally important.
The Turks are a huge group of people living over a very wide
geographical area, who have founded or lived within many and
diverse states, with widely varying ways of life. When we
speak of Turkish musical history, it an especially important
that we know which Turkish tribe's music we are talking
about, and from which period. Trying to understand the last
eight hundred years based on the written sources on Turkish
music, it is quite difficult to shed light on earlier periods.

8. Entertainment
Turkey has many spas in major cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and
Izmir; they are a great way to relax. One of the most popular spas
can be found in the city of Izmir, the spa is also a hotel and is called
the Thermal Princess Hotel and spa, the spa has facilities such as
massages, facials, Jacuzzi, outdoor and indoor swimming pools and a
gym. There are 21 national parks throughout Turkey. The largest
park is the Kuscenneti National Park, which covers 69,800 acres of
land and is famous for its wetlands, spectacular views, and wide
variety of the bird species. The park protects over 259 different
species of birds, among which are geese, pelicans, ducks, swans,
black storks, nightingales and herons.
Families will enjoy Adaland, an aquapark situated in the city of Kusadasi.
The park is split into three sections and includes a dolphin park and
the sea garden. There are many adrenalin fuelled water rides within
the park including log flumes, rapids, slides, and a huge ride called
the Fish Bowl. In the dolphin park there are a total of five dolphins
and it is possible to pet them and swim with them or just watch them
perform in one of their shows. In the sea garden there is a huge
aquarium, where you can observe many exotic fish from the
Mediterranean and the Black Seas. Tours can also be arranged for
scuba diving, sailing and snorkeling. Istanbul has a fantastic zoo, the
Bosphorus Zoo, which houses many different species ranging from
camels to various birds.

9. SPORTS
Paragliding in Turkey
Babadag in Fethiye is one of the top ten places for
paragliding with views over Fethiye's Olu Deniz, the blue
Lagoon, other paragliding regions are Oren close to
Bodrum with also fantastic views over Gokova and
Cleopatra Island and Kazdagi close to Ayvalik.
Skiing Areas in Turkey
Turkey has more first class skiing areas than expected,
the oldest two, well established skiing areas are Uludag
in Bursa and Kartalkaya in Bolu but new skiing areas
close to holiday resorts are existing as well, like
Saklikent very close to Antalya and Eren Dagi close to
Fethiye.

10. HABITS
 The marriage in a notary lasts about 5 to 10 minutes. The bride
usually wears western clothes and everybody will clap their hands
after the YES!
 After the couple marries, the bride will receive a lot of gold gifts
and money!! Relatives and friends hang in the bride gold coins with
a red bow, gold necklaces, gold bracelets, money shines, etc... If
there is a party the bride will wear the gifts. The bride also
carries a small bag, where she keeps some of the gold gifts if they
are so many. Depending on the wealth of the family and friends,
the gifts pays the party and more...
 Turkish families love to offer something to their guests. It can be
lunch, dinner or a tea. If you have an invitation to visit a Turkish
family, go with an empty stomach! Usually the woman of the family
cook delicious dishes during the whole day and offer a banquet.
Taste a little bit of everything because if you reject something
they will be desapointed.

11.  Official marriage in Turkey is done at the notary and the religious
one with a religious party. Turkey is a secular country, a man can
marry only a woman in the notary, but a man can marry at most 4
women in the Islamic religion. The percentage of poligamic men is
very small in Turkey and usually the population do not approve such
marriages.
 when a child is born or is circumcisized, relatives and friends give
them a gold coin with a red bow.
 there is a ritual when a younger person greets an eldery person of
the same family or a closed friend. The eldery person gives his/her
hand and the youngest person kisses the hand and take the hand
towards his/her forehead. This is a sign of respect.

12. ROUTINES
 Turks have the habit of removing their shoes before entering home.
 Turkish men greet by kissing each other in their faces. This is a
normal thing to see in Turkey. Man kisses man, woman kisses woman
and woman kisses man in both cheeks. Religious women don't kiss
men.
 A typical Turk drinks approximately around 10 glasses of black tea
pro day. Tea is the most popular drink in Turkey.
 in villages there is usually a coffee bar. In this coffee bar you will
see only men drinking tea or coffee, smoking and talking. The
women's permanence in such places is not prohibited. They also meet
at their own houses to have tea and talk gossips!

13. ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ
Μέλη ομάδας:
 Βασιλική Βαγγελιά
 Χριστίνα Παλούκη
Πέμπτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2013