Country facts
- Capital
- Ankara
- Population
- 85,664,944
- Languages
- Turkish
- Currency
- Turkish lira (TRY)
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June in Turkey
2 entries- 20World Refugee DayUN-designated since 2001. Over 100 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide — the highest number since the UNHCR started counting.Awareness→
- 21Father's DayHonors fathers and fatherhood. Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane proposed it in 1910 to match Mother's Day; took until 1972 to become a US federal observance. Most countries that celebrate it picked the third Sunday of June.Observance→