Turkey is a country of many rich and interesting contrast which give it the potential for a large profitable tourist industry; it has much to offer both the sophisticated traveller and the package tourist. The Mediterranean Coast is warm and offers swimming and sailing, the mountains of the Marmara region and central Anatolia offer winter skiing, and the rich cultural heritage from the Hittite, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires provides many archaeological , historical and religious attractions.
Turkey is a large country, physically divided by the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles, with as uneven, mountainous terrain, which has made the development of a land system of transport policy gave priority to the construction of a railway system that linked Ankara with inland regional centres.
Turkey started with agriculture occupying a much larger proportion of GNP in 1960 thann other oil importing middle income countries.And by 1980, although agriculture as a percentage of Turkish GNP had decline by almost half since 1960, Turkey's agricultural sector was still significantly larger than that in other oil-importing middle income countries.
Turkey with virtually no oil resources of its own relies heavily on oil imports to meet its energy needs
The volume of foreign trade has shown a substantial rise in recent years and this resulted in a significant increase in Turkey's share of total world trade
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