What is Turkey Culture like? I'm from Australia, & need to do a talk on it.?

Question

Food, Religion?

Answer 1

Turkey culture is hard to define with a few words really. People from many different ethnicity live in Turkey (apart from Turks, Arabic, Cherkez, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian, etc) and they all add something to the culture of Turkey. Here's what wikipedia says on Turkish culture;

The culture of Turkey is a diverse one, derived from various elements of the Ottoman Empire, European, and the Islamic traditions.

The nation was modernized primarily by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. As he transformed a religion-driven former Ottoman Empire into a modern nation-state with a very strong separation of state and religion, there was a corresponding increase in the methods of artistic expression. During the first years of the republic, the government invested a large amount of resources into fine arts such as paintings, sculpture and architecture. This was done as both a process of modernisation and of creating a cultural identity.

Because of the different historical factors playing an important role in defining a Turkish identity, the culture of Turkey is an interesting combination of clear efforts to be "modern" and Western, alongside a desire to maintain traditional religious and historical values.

The question "Who are these Turks?" does not have an easy answer. During the Turn of the century Ottomans were a multination state extended to three continents. This page limits this problem to the borders of the Republic of Turkey. The location of the pictures are given with the name of the city or as a region, in the case the source do not mention.

The change in culture of Turkish people within the last century is very surprising. Today, Turkey might be the only country that contains every extreme depiction of east and west culture and many in between grey tones. Ottoman system was a multi-federation state that enabled the people not to mix with each other. From the cultural view point, balkanization was the end of Ottoman Empire. Turkish Republic adapted a unitary approach, which was forcing all the different cultures within its boarders to mix with each other under the name of Turkish. The mixing, instead of assimilation is the end result of many grey tones. 83 years of transformation undeniably produced many grey colors of east-west duality. These pictures should be taken as a proof achievement of Turkish democracy as a cauldron of ideas and representations.

As for food, you'll love it (being subjective here :). Actually, you may even try Turkish food in Australia. I know there are Turkish restaurants there, my cousin owns one in Melbourne. You can try kebap, döner and many other Turkish food that you may like.

Answer 2

Well, generally it's very nice, with plenty of corn to eat, and other turkeys to hang out with. But then, about November, things get really weird, as every turkey works hard to be "not quite as plump" as all the other ones. About Nov14, many of the turkeys start to disappear, for unknown reasons.

Answer 3

Have a long happy life for u im turkish but i cant explain what is it like. Noone cant come and see urself it is great