CIA
-- The World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
An annual publication of the CIA, contains up-to-date information on all aspects
of the political, social and military history of a particular country.
DMOZ Open Directory
Project - Turkey (http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle%5FEast/Turkey/)
Major website giving access to many important subject areas.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.
Infoplease (http://www.infoplease.com/)
Part of the electronic Learning Network, this homepage allows searches by country
which yield articles in almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical works,
etc. Additional reference links are provided as well.
International Weather From WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/)
An English language home page providing links to sites offering international
weather information by city.
Islamic Calendar
Converter (http://wwwcgi.umr.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/msaumr/hijri)
This English language website not only converts the present Gregorian date, in
common use in the West, to its modern Hijra equivalent (in common use in the
Islamic World), it also provides a mechanism, based on software developed by
Waleed A. Muhanna, to convert all past dates from Gregorian-Hijra or Hijra-Gregorian.
Turkey Central Travel and Business
Directory (http://www.turkeycentral.com/)
An extensive portal with numerous links for destination information, maps,
restaurants, government ministries and general information on Turkey. This
site would be very useful for anyone planning on visiting Turkey, but also
good for
general
research.
U.S. Department of State - Background
Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the
countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include
facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions,
economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.
United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several
languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization
as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations,
etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.
United States. Department of State (http://www.state.gov)
Numerous documents concerning diplomatic and international relations, travel
advice and warnings relating to the countries of the world are available on the
State Department's official site by searching under a particular country's
name.
World Desk Reference: Turkey (http://travel.dk.com/wdr/TM/mTM%5FIntr.htm)
Website giving general information about contemporary Turkey.
Worldskip.com (http://www.worldskip.com/)
A search by country in this website yields basic narrative information about
it.
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