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Turkey will focus on overseas promotion in its new promotional campaign aiming to highlight the country's tourism potential at the international level and to diversify the tourism facilities. A budget of $140 million is allocated for the promotional activities.
Turkey had a fruitful tourism season in 2007, attracting just over 23,000 international tourists and attaining an 18 percent increase in the number of tourists from 2006. Turkey ranked among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of tourism potential, but the ministry wants to be in the top five, according to
Tourism and Culture
Minister Ertuğrul Günay.
“For this purpose we launched a promotional campaign this month. We want to attract tourists with higher incomes,” he said.
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Driving License
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If you are visiting Turkey as a tourist or residing for a definite period, you are allowed to drive with your international license.
However, if you become a resident or start working or studying in Turkey, you need to convert your driving license into a Turkish one. Thus in principle, all international driving licenses are acceptable, once they are localized with the Association of Drivers (Şöförler Odasi) in Turkey. |
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Turkey stands out with its tasty real estate market
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| When it comes to buying a holiday home or investment property in the Mediterranean, most people tend to think of Spain or Italy. But Turkey, with its stunning scenery and wealth of antiquities, is fast emerging as a new property hot spot. Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey is blessed with some of the best coastline in Europe, especially in the country's southwestern corner where the Mediterranean and Aegean seas meet. |
With Turkey expected to join the European Union within the next decade, property experts say those who get in early stand to see a substantial return on their investment.
The combination of rapidly rising house prices and Turkish property market reforms has made the country an increasingly popular destination for international investors. Five years
ago the government passed legislation making it possible for non-Turkish citizens to buy property. Since then, foreigners have spent more than $7.2 billion on an estimated 30,000 homes, according to the Turkish government. Over the last year alone property sales to foreigners soared by 59% to $2.9 billion.
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Property sales to foreigners finally approved
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Parliament passed a bill late Thursday regulating property sales to foreigners after it was re-arranged bearing in mind
the Constitutional Court's annulment of previous legislation.
Foreigners and foreign foundations will be able to own up to 10 percent of land within a building scheme, according to
the new amendment. In case of liquidation of foreign companies in Turkey, the legislation will apply certain limitations which will enable foreigners to buy land in strategic and important areas only through special permission.
The Council of Ministers will be authorized to determine the sales of land in areas of importance to water, mining and energy supplies or in religious and historical sites.
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While foreign ownership of real estate in military-restricted areas will be possible only by permission from command headquarters that are authorized by the General Staff, real estate in security areas will be purchasable by foreigners only through a special permission of the related governor's office, the legislation states.
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Turkey knocked out but proud |
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Turkey have said a bitter but proud farewell to EURO 2008 after losing 3-2 to Germany in the semi-finals match played at St. Jakob Park at Basel. |
Uğur Boral put Turkey ahead after 22 minutes but four minutes later Bastian Schweinsteiger leveled the score for Germany. On 79th minute Miroslav Klose's header gave Germans a 2-1 lead but Semih Şentürk equalized the score on 86th minute, this time for Turkey. While it was thought that the game would go to extra time, Philipp Lahm scored the winner on the last minute with a close range shot.
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Welcoming Queen Elizabeth II |
| Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will be arriving in Turkey this week for a four-day state visit – their second in 37 years. The four-day stay of the royal couple in Turkey will yet be another demonstration of the strong bonds of friendship and of allied relations. |
All through the past many years… Ever since the 1987 application of this country for full membership in the European Union, among the members of the Western club of democracies, Britain has always been a staunch supporter, often the sole supporter of Turkey's EU bid. British support to the Turkish membership drive, of course, is not just a product of the strong love and affection London has toward Ankara, but rather is a product of the capability of the past and present British governments in approaching the Turkish membership drive with a strategic perspective which even today lacks in many European capitals, particularly in Paris.
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