Turkish Government and Economy

Tr Government And Economy

177 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

Practise Tr Government And Economy now

Random questions from this topic, one at a time. You see the answer and the explanation straight after each one.

All 177 questions

  1. Complete the sentence about Turkish language with the correct year: In ______, the TDK published a bilingual Ottoman-Turkish/Pure Turkish dictionary that documents the results of the language reform.
  2. Complete the sentence about Turkish language with the correct year: In ______, 93% of the population of Turkey were native speakers of Turkish, about 67 million at the time, with Kurdish languages mak…
  3. Complete the sentence about Turkish Language Association with the correct year: In ______ it was tasked with the latinization of the Turkish alphabet.
  4. Complete the sentence about Turkish Language Association with the correct year: The language council was dissolved in July ______, after the Turkish parliament canceled their funds over the lack of re…
  5. Complete the sentence about Turkic languages with the correct year: On 15 December ______, the Orkhon Inscriptions, one of the first Turkic texts, were decrypted.
  6. Complete the sentence about Turkish cuisine with the correct year: Prior to the symposia, the study of Turkish culinary culture was first popularized by the publication of Süheyl Ünver's Fifty Dishes…
  7. Complete the sentence about Shish kebab with the correct year: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known publication in English is in the ______ novel Our Mr.
  8. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: The word baklava is first attested in English in ______, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish: باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.
  9. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: Written in ______ in today's Iraq, the cookbook was based on an earlier collection of 9th century Persian-inspired recipes.
  10. Complete the sentence about Turkish delight with the correct year: Fry's Turkish Delight, created in ______, is marketed by Cadbury in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Canada and…
  11. Complete the sentence about Turkish delight with the correct year: Hadji Bey was an Armenian emigrant to Ireland who in ______ set up an eponymous company – still in existence – to produce rahat lokou…
  12. Complete the sentence about Turkish coffee with the correct year: Coffee was in use in Istanbul by ______; a legal document mentions that Ottoman admiral Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha's house had a coffee…
  13. Complete the sentence about Turkish coffee with the correct year: A ______ Danish expedition recorded that "northern and eastern Arabs" prepared bean coffee "in the same way as with the Turks".
  14. Complete the sentence about Turkish coffee with the correct year: Already in ______ several ships were ordered to be sunk in Istanbul harbour for importing coffee.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ayran with the correct year: A c. ______ CE Turkic dictionary, Dīwān ul-Lughat al-Turk, defines ayran as a "drink made out of milk".
  16. Complete the sentence about Simit with the correct year: Warwick Goble, too, made an illustration of these simit sellers of Istanbul in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Menemen with the correct year: According to several accounts, menemen developed in Menemen after Cretan Muslims resettled there during the ______ population exchange betwee…
  18. Complete the sentence about Meze with the correct year: Palestinian ethnographer Tawfiq Canaan described mezze in ______ as fruits, nuts, and bread that accompany spirits.
  19. Complete the sentence about Gözleme with the correct year: The oldest record of the word in a Turkic language is dated back to ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Künefe with the correct year: Food historian Daniel Newman cites an ______ cookbook published in Beirut as the earliest documented example of a cheese-filled variant.
  21. Complete the sentence about Künefe with the correct year: Gustaf Dalman described in ______ knafeh basma made with sweetened cheese between two layers of pastry being made in Sidon and Jerusalem.
  22. Complete the sentence about Turkish bath with the correct year: The first recorded use of the term 'Turkish bath' in English was in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Yunus Emre with the correct year: The UNESCO General Conference unanimously passed a resolution declaring ______, the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth, International Y…
  24. Complete the sentence about Hacı Bektaş Veli with the correct year: When the Janissary corps were abolished in ______ by Mahmud II the Bektashis suffered the same fate.
  25. Complete the sentence about Mawlid with the correct year: The Ottomans declared it an official holiday in ______, known as Mevlid Kandil.
  26. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Turkey with the correct year: In ______, there were 236 Christian churches open for worship in Turkey.
  27. Complete the sentence about Turkish folk music with the correct year: In ______, a Turkish state radio was established and the dissemination of Turkish folk music became a priority for those in charge…
  28. Complete the sentence about Arabesque with the correct year: One of the most prolific and commercially successful is İbrahim Tatlıses, who broke all sales records in Turkey in ______ and continues to…
  29. Complete the sentence about Mehter with the correct year: In ______, the music of the mehters fell into disfavor following Sultan Mahmud II's abolition of the Janissary Corps, who had formed the core…
  30. Complete the sentence about Sezen Aksu with the correct year: In ______, NPR named her as one of the "50 Great Voices" of the world.
  31. Complete the sentence about Sezen Aksu with the correct year: Sezen Aksu released her first single, Haydi Şansım/Gel Bana in ______ under the name of "Sezen Seley".
  32. Complete the sentence about Sezen Aksu with the correct year: In ______, Sezen Aksu won the "Promising Female Artist of the Year" award.
  33. Complete the sentence about Barış Manço with the correct year: Barış Manço was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey on 2 January ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Barış Manço with the correct year: Then, in ______, he resumed his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, Belgium.
  35. Complete the sentence about Barış Manço with the correct year: In ______, he formed the legendary Kurtalan Ekspres that would accompany him until his death.
  36. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the correct year: Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Macedonia, and Switzerland were relegated due to their poor results in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Orhan Pamuk with the correct year: In ______, a lawyer sued him over a statement acknowledging the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
  38. Complete the sentence about Nâzım Hikmet with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from the Ottoman Naval School on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands, in the Sea of Marmara.
  39. Complete the sentence about Nâzım Hikmet with the correct year: For a brief period, he was assigned as a naval officer to the Ottoman Navy cruiser Hamidiye, but in ______ he became seriously ill and w…
  40. Complete the sentence about Nâzım Hikmet with the correct year: In July ______, both friends went to Moscow, where Ran studied Economics and Sociology at the Communist University of the Toilers of the…
  41. Complete the sentence about Aziz Nesin with the correct year: Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of ______ was passed.
  42. Complete the sentence about Aziz Nesin with the correct year: Afterwards, in ______ Nesin launched a weekly satirical magazine, Marko Paşa, with two leading figures, namely Sabahattin Ali and Rıfat Il…
  43. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with the correct year: Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June ______, the youngest of three children.
  44. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with the correct year: Tanpınar's mother, Nesime Bahriye Hanım, died of typhus in Mosul in ______, when Tanpınar was thirteen.
  45. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with the correct year: After quitting veterinary college, he resumed his educational career at the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University, which…
  46. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with the correct year: In ______, he made an extensive journey to Europe over the course of six months, traveling to many countries including France, B…
  47. Complete the sentence about Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with the correct year: In ______, Tanpınar published Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, translated as The Time Regulation Institute.
  48. Complete the sentence about Sabahattin Ali with the correct year: Sabahattin Ali married Aliye on 16 May ______ and had a daughter, Filiz.
  49. Complete the sentence about Yahya Kemal Beyatlı with the correct year: Yahya Kemal was born Ahmet Âgâh on 2 December ______, in Skopje, then in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire into an ethnic…
  50. Complete the sentence about Yahya Kemal Beyatlı with the correct year: By ______, he came to know Halide Edib Adıvar as well as Yusuf Akçura, both renowned Turkish authors.
  51. Complete the sentence about Yahya Kemal Beyatlı with the correct year: Yahya Kemal founded a literary magazine, Dergâh, in ______ together with another significant figure Ahmet Haşim.
  52. Complete the sentence about Yahya Kemal Beyatlı with the correct year: After the Surname Law came into effect in ______, he adopted the surname "Beyatlı".
  53. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Akif Ersoy with the correct year: Following its success in the Young Turk revolution, he joined the Committee for Union and Progress in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Akif Ersoy with the correct year: During the session of 12 March ______, the Turkish Grand National Assembly officially designated his ten-quatrain poem as the lyric…
  55. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Akif Ersoy with the correct year: Ersoy moved to Cairo in ______ and taught the Turkish language at a university there during his 11-year stay.
  56. Complete the sentence about Fuzûlî with the correct year: Born in ______ in modern-day Iraq, Fuzuli studied literature, mathematics, astronomy, and languages as a child.
  57. Complete the sentence about Fuzûlî with the correct year: In ______, Fuzuli died from the plague and was buried in Karbala.
  58. Complete the sentence about Fuzûlî with the correct year: Fuzuli, whose given name was Muhammad and whose father's name was Suleyman, was born in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Karagöz and Hacivat with the correct year: In ______, the character Hacivat appeared in the video game Fortnite: Battle Royale as a cosmetic outfit, introduced during the g…
  60. Complete the sentence about Turkish literature with the correct year: For the next 900 years, until shortly before the fall of the Ottoman Empire in ______, the oral and written traditions would remai…
  61. Complete the sentence about Turkish literature with the correct year: With the founding of the Republic of Turkey in ______, the two traditions came together for the first time.
  62. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize in Literature with the correct year: In ______, the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.
  63. Complete the sentence about My Name Is Red with the correct year: The English translation, My Name Is Red, won the International Dublin Literary Award in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Memed, My Hawk with the correct year: In ______, the book was translated into English by Edouard Roditi, thus gaining Kemal his first exposure to English-speaking readers.
  65. Complete the sentence about Memed, My Hawk with the correct year: In ______, the novel was adapted by into a film, directed by and starring Peter Ustinov.
  66. Complete the sentence about Turkish cinema with the correct year: Turkey's first sound film, Bir Millet Uyanıyor, was shown in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Turkish cinema with the correct year: With a total of 49 films produced in ______, this single year equaled a greater output produced in Turkey than all previous years comb…
  68. Complete the sentence about Yılmaz Güney with the correct year: A year before his death in ______, he co-founded the Kurdish Institute of Paris together with the Kurdish poets Cegerxwîn and Hejar amon…
  69. Complete the sentence about Yılmaz Güney with the correct year: Yılmaz Güney was born in ______ in the village of Yenice in Adana province.
  70. Complete the sentence about Yılmaz Güney with the correct year: In ______, Güney started studying law at Istanbul University but was quickly drawn into the film industry in which he already had connec…
  71. Complete the sentence about Nuri Bilge Ceylan with the correct year: Ceylan was born in Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey on 26 January ______, to Mehmet Emin Ceylan, an agricultural engineer, and Fatma Ceyl…
  72. Complete the sentence about Nuri Bilge Ceylan with the correct year: Which became the first Turkish short film to be screened at the 48th Cannes Film Festival in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Fatih Akın with the correct year: Akin has been married to German-Mexican actress Monique Obermüller since ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Muhteşem Yüzyıl with the correct year: Within the first two months of its release in Bangladesh back in ______, Sultan Suleiman received the highest TV program ratings in B…
  75. Complete the sentence about Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ with the correct year: Tatlıtuğ was born on 27 October ______, in Adana, to Erdem and Nurten Tatlıtuğ.
  76. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Film Festival with the correct year: The Istanbul International Film Festival was first organized in ______, within the frame of the International Istanbul Festiva…
  77. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Film Festival with the correct year: In ______ the event was realized under the title of "Istanbul Filmdays", taking place throughout the Festival within a span of…
  78. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Film Festival with the correct year: Beginning from ______, the event gained an identity as a separate activity; it was shifted to the month of April.
  79. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Film Festival with the correct year: From ______ on, "Cinema Honorary Awards" began to be presented.
  80. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Film Festival with the correct year: Beginning from ______, "Lifetime Achievement Awards" along with "Cinema Honorary Awards" began to be presented to internationa…
  81. Complete the sentence about Turkish carpet with the correct year: In ______ AD, the Seljuq Alp Arslan defeated the Roman Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes at Manzikert.
  82. Complete the sentence about Turkish calligraphy with the correct year: In ______, the Arabic script was replaced with an altered version of the Latin alphabet in the Turkish Republic.
  83. Complete the sentence about Turkish miniature with the correct year: But there is no distinct evidence of illustration in the Ottoman Empire prior to the conquest of Istanbul in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ there were 29 miniaturists in the Ottoman Court Archives.
  85. Complete the sentence about Osman Hamdi Bey with the correct year: After receiving his father's blessings, she accompanied him to Constantinople when he returned in ______, where the two got married a…
  86. Complete the sentence about Osman Hamdi Bey with the correct year: Osman Hamdi exhibited three paintings at the ______ Paris Exposition Universelle.
  87. Complete the sentence about Osman Hamdi Bey with the correct year: Osman Hamdi focused on building relationships with international institutions, notably the University of Pennsylvania, from which he…
  88. Complete the sentence about Osman Hamdi Bey with the correct year: In ______, he painted the excavation of Nippur as a gift to the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
  89. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Modern with the correct year: Inaugurated on December 11, ______, Istanbul Modern was Turkey's first modern and contemporary art gallery and focuses on Turkish as…
  90. Complete the sentence about Istanbul Modern with the correct year: As of ______, Oya Eczacıbaşı serves as chair of the board of directors.
  91. Complete the sentence about Oktay Sinanoğlu with the correct year: After his retirement from Yale, Sinanoğlu was appointed to the chemistry department of Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, servi…
  92. Complete the sentence about Ali Kuşçu with the correct year: Ali Kuşçu was born in ______ in the city of Samarkand, in present-day Uzbekistan.
  93. Complete the sentence about Ali Kuşçu with the correct year: Ali Kuşçu composed "risalah dar hay’at" in Persian for Mehmed II at Constantinople in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Ali Kuşçu with the correct year: A Latin translation of two of Qushji's works, the Tract on Arithmetic and Tract on Astronomy, was published by John Greaves in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Piri Reis map with the correct year: The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in ______ by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.
  96. Complete the sentence about Piri Reis map with the correct year: When rediscovered in ______, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost…
  97. Complete the sentence about Piri Reis map with the correct year: When his uncle died, Piri Reis temporarily returned to Gallipoli and began composing his first world map in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Piri Reis map with the correct year: The finished manuscript was dated to the month of Muharram in the Islamic year 919 AH, equivalent to ______ AD.
  99. Complete the sentence about Piri Reis map with the correct year: Piri Reis returned to the navy and played a role in the ______ conquest of Egypt.
  100. Complete the sentence about Al-Jazari with the correct year: Al-Jazari was born in the area of Upper Mesopotamia in ______.

Keep practising

More general knowledge topics

All general knowledge →

Ready for more general knowledge?

Play the GK ChallengeGeneral knowledge hub