Turkey Break

It’s 12:45pm now. I’ve been sitting on my presentation about “Turkey” (the country – also if you might know, but people (English speaking) tend to give me cook-books) since 8:30am. Hm, that’s only four hours, but I have to take a break. My key aspects are

  • History
  • Politics
  • Religion
  • Scenery
  • Settlement Geography (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya)

Now, the presentation is only allowed to be 20-30 minutes (preferable 20 minutes). For four hours I’ve been writing about the Religion (which I find most interesting). I skipped the History, I until now have no clue how to shorten history which started about 13.000 years ago. Well, that’s not true, I have a clue, I might start with 1923 (Atatürk) or even with WWI, depending on how much info that is. (it is a lot).

I also skipped the Politics. I realized – I’m sorry for saying this – I am not interested in the Politics of Turkey. I’m not even sure if I’m interested in the German politics 😉 (I am, of course, but it’s quite frustrating at times). I’m very much interested in the US politics though (not going to express my opinion on it).

The Religion, the Islam, is very interesting, that’s the main reason I chose to give a lecture on Turkey.
I need a break from that now though, too much “only one god” (I watched a few videos about the believes in a row, so that’s why), so now I’m blogging.

Here’s a shot of my powerpoint presentation. Very plain, but the plainer – the better (just like with Websites :D)

PP

Are you interested in other countries and/or their religion or not really?
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8 thoughts on “Turkey Break”

  1. Well, yes, I’m interested. I have periods where there is one country I’m most interested in and then it changes to another country. So it was Russia, Norway, Egypt, China, Scotland, France and so on….
    I like to know where everything is in the world, so I love watching maps and where their capitals are and so on.

    The .ppt looks good and very professional 🙂

  2. [quote comment=”10540″]Well, yes, I’m interested. I have periods where there is one country I’m most interested in and then it changes to another country. So it was Russia, Norway, Egypt, China, Scotland, France and so on….
    I like to know where everything is in the world, so I love watching maps and where their capitals are and so on.

    The .ppt looks good and very professional :)[/quote]
    Sounds like you should study Cartography 🙂

  3. Lol, I was a politics major but I, for the most part, hated tackling the political system of countries. I was more into a country’s foreign and domestic policies.

    I think for Turkey, it’s more appropriate to go into their religion AND culture, which go hand in hand anyways.

  4. Funny, the thing I’d find most interesting would be History 😉 Konstantinopel, Byzanz all that stuff. I guess parts of that would blend into religion.

    I’m very interested in other countries, though not as much in Turkey. But I love looking at maps or globes of the world, playing “guess the country” games or browsing wikipedia articles about foreign countries from allover the world 😉 I’m very geeky.

  5. [quote comment=”10544″]Funny, the thing I’d find most interesting would be History 😉 Konstantinopel, Byzanz all that stuff. I guess parts of that would blend into religion.

    I’m very interested in other countries, though not as much in Turkey. But I love looking at maps or globes of the world, playing “guess the country” games or browsing wikipedia articles about foreign countries from allover the world 😉 I’m very geeky.[/quote]

    Yeah, Religion, Politics and History all blend into each other in some way. I wish I’d have more time to present because then I wouldn’t have to shorten everything so much.

  6. Good luck with your presentation, I haven’t had to give an actual presentation thats lasted over 5 minutes in a long time.

    I’m very interested in Asian culture and religion. I do a lot of research on Buddhism and Hinduism whenever I can.

  7. Wow, it would be hard to summarize all that about one country in 20 minutes! Good luck with your presentation, the ppt looks great ❓

    I’m usually interested in social customs of countries, which can tie in with religion…

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