Carpets are among the best known art forms produced by the Turks. There are environmental, sociological, economic, and religious reasons for the widespread art of carpet weaving among the Turkish people.

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There are certain amount of unreasoning beliefs among people living in a community, arising sometimes from fear, sometimes from helplessness, and sometimes from coincidences. They are called as “superstitions”.

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Turkish is a language spoken by 65–73 million people worldwide, predominantly in Turkey, with smaller communities of speakers in Cyprus, Greece and Eastern Europe, as well as by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly Germany, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages.

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Turkish Music includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and music from Ottoman Empire dominions such as Persian music, Balkan music and ancient Byzantine music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences. In turn, it has influenced these cultures through the Ottoman Empire. Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and South and Central Asia.

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Cuneyt Arkin (born Fahrettin Cureklibatur on 7 September 1937 in Eskisehir, Alpu, Gokceoglu Turkey), is a Turkish film actor, director and producer. He is not only a doctor in medicine, but is also a renowned martial artist in over seven different forms.

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The hammam (Turkish hamam) or Turkish Bath is the Middle Eastern variant of a steam bath, which can be categorized as a wet relative of the sauna.

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Turkish literature is the collection of written and oral texts composed in the Turkish Language, either in its Ottoman form or in less exclusively literary forms, such as that spoken in the Republic of Turkey today.

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