Read Me First
A few things I'd like to say
Thanks for reading this page before sending me any message. I also would like to take this chance to thank you for visiting my All about Turkey pages.

All about Turkey pages started to grow in 1993 when I began to collect some links about Turkey around the world as well as in Turkey itself while I was working as a systems programmer at the Ege University Computer Center. At the beginning, this collection was very personal. I even was keeping it in my bookmarks. Then, it grew so much that I had to organize the links, and put some other place. Later, I made it public.

I always considered it as a hobby, and it was not a part of my job. However, after appearing in search engines around the world, this collection gained some credit, and began to be known as a part of the university Web services. After that, I was the person to ask anything people might want to know about Turkey.

At the beginning, I enjoyed helping people, and to be known around the world. But, sometime later, questions began to take my work and spare time. Recently, I really can't give anytime to any question.

Anything you want to know about Turkey is most probably available through my links. Please make sure you have checked out all the pages, and the links before asking me any question. Nowadays, the search engines like Altavista, Excite are very reliable. Try these sites as well.

No more will I answer those messages in which you thank, or ask me why I use Turkey instead of Turkiye in the title. I have already spent too much time answering these types of messages. Later I may put my point of view on this issue here.

I evaluate your suggestions & link addition requests, and use them once in a while if they are reasonable.

Again thank you very much for reading this far. Keep visiting All about Turkey. I hope you get what you want.

Ozgur Balsoy
January 5, 1997