Turkey-Siobhan&BrianB

**__Turkey__** = Turkey is a large country in the northwestern part of the Middle East. It sticks out into the Aegean and Black Sea. It is north of Lebanon and Israel. It is also northwest of Iraq, Kuwait, and Iran. It is bordered by Syria and Iraq to the southeast. It is inhabited by approximately 71.8 million people and has an average of around 300,947 people per square mile. Turkey is a very diverse country in the Middle East. (SD) =

= = = = = Ethnicity is a grouping based on common cultural heritage, distinguished by language, customs, race, or nationality. Turkey's ethnicity is made up of Turk and Kurd. Compared to other countries like Lebanon and Yemen it is very different because no other country in the Middle East has Turk as an ethnicity. But compared to countries like Iran and Kuwait with 4+ types of ethnicity each Turkey is pretty boring. Maybe the reason there are only two types of ethnicity is because not many people immigrated to Turkey. (SD) =

Ethnic make-up of Turkey in 2007.(Illustration by XNR Productions/Cengage Learning, Gale. **Source Citation:** "Turkey: Ethnic Make-up." (Illustration by XNR Productions/Cengage Learning, Gale.) //The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World//. Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits = = = Language is the vocal sounds and words common to a particular group of people. Turkey's language is made up of Turkish, Kurdish, and Arabic. It is surprising that Arabic isn't the top language since Kuwait, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia's top language is Arabic. This makes Turkey pretty different. Maybe it's overlapped with languages from Iraq and Turk became more popular because Iraq has some of the same languages and they border each other.(SD) =

Türk Türkiye 'nin En Dildir-means Turk is the top language in Turkey. = Religion is a system of beliefs and worship often including a code of ethnics. The main religion in Turkey is Islam (Sunni). It is one of the more common religions in the Middle East. Yet, compared to Israel whose main religion is Judaism, it is pretty different. It surprised me that Turkey's main religion is Islam (Sunni) because many other countries are other types of Islam.(SD) =

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=**Life expectancy is the average number of years the population lives. The life expectancy for Turkey is pretty average. It is about 73 years old. It's about the same for the U.S.A. I'm guessing they have alot of recources to keep their population healthy.(BB) **=
 * Source Citation: ** "Major Religions in Turkey." (Illustration by XNR Productions/Cengage Learning, Gale.) // The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World // . Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

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Elderly Man in a Wheelchair with a Dog." (© Ronnie Kaufman/Corbis.) //Animals with Jobs: Canine Companions//. Judith Janda Presnall. KidHaven Press, 2003. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

=**Literacy is the ability to read and write effectivley. About 87% of men in Turkey can read and write and about 80% of women. Based on this information I believe education is optional.(BB) **=
 * Source Citation: ** "Literacy in Turkey." (Illustration by XNR Productions/Cengage Learning, Gale.) // The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World // . Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

=Urbanization is the development of cities in a country. Only about 59% of Turkey is urbanized. The other percentage is suburbs and a small percentage villages.(BB) =

Aerial view of Ankara, Turkey
Cities of the World, 2002 



Aerial view of Ankara, Turkey AP/Wide World Photos, Inc ** Full Text: **COPYRIGHT 2002 Gale Group, COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale, Cengage Learning. 

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"Aerial view of Ankara, Turkey." // Cities of the World //. Ed. Karen Ellicott. 6th ed. Vol. 3: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East. Detroit: Gale, 2002. // Gale Student Resources In Context //. Web. 26 Mar. 2012.Document URL http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ImagesDetailsPage/ImagesDetailsWindow?total=2&query=BS%20ankara%20turkey&prodId=SUIC&windowstate=normal&mode=view&limiter=&displayGroupName=Images&currPage=2&sortBy=relevance%2Cdescending&action=e&catId=&view=docDisplay&documentId=GALE%7CPC3410787392&userGroupName=mlin_n_wsparker&jsid=be04dcf375f191f15733a4d3606e6113 =Turkey is a very unique country compared to the other middle eastern countries. It is more diverse and well educated. Turkey is a very nice country.(BB) =

Brian I noticed the first one of your paragraphs that you misspelled their you spelled it like their. I think that your font and spacing was effective. I was surprised by the literacy rate of Turkey, I thought it was going to be in the 90% range not the 80% range. I was confused by the urbanization picture; it a picture of houses which is suburban not urban. I think that the chart for literacy was a good picture though. Ian.B

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Your lead paragraph was very good- it had all of the requirements and more. I noticed a few spelling mistakes, like that you spelled there like thier. I would suggest adding a little more detail to the conclusion, however, as it was a little thin. I wanted to know more about urbanization, because you didnt give very much information on it. Great job anyway! <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Travis. G

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> I would suggest that you guys add a little bit more detail to urbanization and literacy. There a little thin. You should add your personal opinion and compare it to other countries. I noticed that you added some Turk language in your wiki. I like it how its different! One picture that kinda confused me was the literacy one. I didn't fully understand what the green part meant. The picture thats most effective was the one that showed all the houses crammed together it really shows how urbanized Turkey is. Nice Job! Mark D

Y our intro is good and has good details. I liked the format of your paragraph and your font and colors. I thought you should add more details to Literacy and and Urbanization. I also think your conclusion is short of details. The picture that is most effective is the Aerial point of turkey because it shows how urbanized it is. Great work! (Amen A.)

-giannap<3
You meet a lot of requirements, but I would work on spelling. I was a bit confused by who wrote what paragraphs though, I couldn't find the initials at first, you might want to make them more noticeable. I also think it's too short, I would work on making it longer. One of the citations is longer. I was confused by the language picture for language, it really isn't a picture.

<span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">After receiving feedback on my wiki I made the following three changes:

<span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1). I made it more clear who wrote which paragraphs because many said the initials were hard to find. I made them big enough and added them after each paragraph so that there was no confusion of who wrote what. I also added Brian's initials so that we both got credit for the work we did.

<span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2). In my second and third paragraphs I realized that I had some "no-no's" so i edited them. Instead of saying, " I wonder why there are only two types of ethnicity in Turkey. Maybe it's because not many people immigrated to Turkey." I got rid of, " I wonder why" and put in ,"Maybe the reason there are only two types of ethnicity is because not many people immigrated to Turkey." so that i didn't say, "I wonder", in my 2nd paragraph. and in my third para graph to make it a little more formal and got rid of, "Me".

<span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3). In my paragraphs, after getting my feedback, I decided to proof read them and try to make them sound really smooth, like butter. That really helped make my wiki look/sound put together and professional, which is something I want if this will be public and open to make sure people will get the right <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> information   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> for projects and what not.   <span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">   <span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">From this feedback process I learned that you sometimes need to rely on others to help you make your work the best you can make it, but it will not make everyone happy. Just like how authors of books accept that nothing is ever going to be perfect because you cannot please everyone. E<span style="color: #dc35e3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> veryone is going to have a different opinion on everything you write. But, with the help of my peers and Mrs.Costa I think that my wiki is the best i can make it. I am going to take this valuable lesson about how your writing will never please everyone with me throughout the rest of my school years so that I won't be feeling too badly if I get some negative feedback. <span style="color: #d10abf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> --Siobhan. D