Guides and Directories

Anatolia.com
Information on Turkey with travel, news, art, weather, and history information. On top of the page you will see the local times of main world cities so you can set up you time to the Turkish one.
http://www.anatolia.com/

BBC News - Country Profile: Turkey
Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1022222.stm

CIA - The World Factbook: Turkey
Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html

Columbia University Libraries - Middle East Studies: Turkey
Directory of categorized links from the WWW-VL.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/Turkey.html

Country Profile: The Republic of Turkey
General information for the Republic of Turkey.
http://www.countryofturkey.com/

Destination Turkey
Includes brief information about the country and Istanbul, recommended Turkish books, music, movies, and photographs.
http://www.geocities.com/destinationturkey/

NationMaster - Turkey
Profile includes information for various aspects of the country, with a special emphasis on statistics and rankings.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/tu-turkey

Paradise Turkey
Created by an individual to help you discover Turkey with a lot of photos and links.
http://www.geocities.com/oonderer_2000/

Turkey Central
A travel portal comprising a categorized directory of links to hotels, tour operators, city guides and various types of resources.
http://www.turkeycentral.com/

Turkeyguide.com
Includes information about the country, cities, the culture, the economy and transportation, as well as maps.
http://www.turkeyguide.com/

Turkses The voice of Turks
Ataturk, tourism, culture and issues about Turkey are the main content in this site but it also contains links to the latest world issues and sites about those topics.
http://www.turkses.com

UK Foreign Office - Country Profiles: Turkey
Overview of country's geography, history, politics, economy, international relations, travel and current affairs.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019745009611

University of Texas - MENIC: Turkey
Links to web resources from the Middle East Network Information Center.
http://menic.utexas.edu/Countries_and_Regions/Turkey/

US Department of State - Turkey
Country portal offers a map and links to Background Notes, USAID page, the US embassy and the current ambassador, press releases, fact sheets, annual Human Rights Reports and other major reports including Country and Industry Market Reports.
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/tu/

US Library of Congress - Country Study: Turkey
June 1995 country profile provides information about its historical setting, society and environment, economy, government and politics, and national security.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/trtoc.html

US Library of Congress - Portals to the World: Turkey
Annotated directory of selected online resources.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/amed/turkey/turkey.html

Wikipedia - Turkey
Hyperlinked encyclopedia article covers the country's history, government and politics, geography, economy, demographics, language and culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

WorldSwitch.com : Turkey
Includes national anthem, links to a map, news sites, airline companies, governmental, cities, attractions, weather, tourism and travel related web sites.
http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Turkey/