Smoking is not permitted in flights, public places, most tour busses and public transportation. The Turkish people do smoke a lot, you would easily recognize that nearly 80 percent of the population smokes cigarettes. By the way Turkish tobacco is top quality and you should buy your cigarettes in Turkey as they are delicious and cheap
Traffic is running from the right in Turkey. While crossing streets in big cities, make sure that the vehicles are at a reasonable distance to allow you cross the street safely. In Turkey, cars have the privilege to use the streets. You can safely walk on the pedestrian walk ways
Oral tradition continues with proverbs. Considering daily life, proverbs embody the deepest feelings and beliefs of the Turkish people. They reveal a nation’s character in its finest details.
Below are some typical Turkish proverbs
– Stretch your legs to the length of your blanket. (Know your limits)
– Water priority to the youngsters, talking priority to the elders.
– Who handles honey has the chance to lick his fingers.
– When a bald man dies, everybody remembers “what golden hair he had”; when a blind man dies, they say “what beautiful eyes he had”.
– Two tightrope walkers cannot perform on the same tightrope.
– A vinegar seller with a smiling face makes more money than a honey seller with a sour face.
– The hunter may be hunted.
– You reap whatever you sow.
– A tree is bent while yet it is young.
– If God wants to make a poor man happy he first makes him lose his donkey and then allows him to find it again.
– There is nothing more expensive than what is bought cheaply and there is nothing cheaper than what is bought expensively
Turkey is a country which should be discovered by those fond of air sports such as, Paragliding, Glider, Delta Wings, Microlight, Parachute and Balloon.
Silk industry, had taken a very important place of various nations from ancient times where silk and spice were coming from Far East and played an important role for Western world in international relations. Silk is also maintained the identification of Eastern Culture by Western societies. Transportation of silk and spice of east via caravans, is formed the commercial roads reaching to Europe from China. In Medieval Age, commercial caravans, had started to their voyages from today’s Chinese Xian city, and reach to the Kashgar city of Uzbekistan; they were reaching to Hazar Sea from Afghanistan plains with following the first one of the roads separated into two there; and to Anatolia over Iran with climbing over Karakorum Mountains with other one.
They were going to Europe via road over Thrace or via maritime lines from Anatolia. In this commercial movement improving from east to west, a road network, used since previous ages, had been benefited. These thousands of kilometers long caravan roads, which allow cultural relations between continents besides dense transportation of silk, porcelain, paper, spice and jewelry, are named as “Silk Road” in the course of time.
Silk Road, beyond being a commercial road connecting Asia to Europe, is holding the signs of cultures, religions and races, who lived in the region for 2000 years, and serves an extraordinary history and cultural wealth.
After gaining of independence of Middle Asia Turkish Republics, re – animation of silk road both as a commercial road and also a historical and cultural value is considered, and works for protection and existence of structures which are constructed throughout this road but not used today with giving them new functions, is commenced. Anatolia is formed on one of the most important junction points of Silk Road from China to reaching to Europe through passing over Middle Asia.