FOREIGN EMBASSIES IN TURKEY
Information and contact details of the
embasies/consulates in Turkey can be obtained from :
www.mfa.gov.tr
www.embassyworld.com
www.gezinet/konsolosluklar/anasayfa.asp
www.BookinTurkey.com
HEALTH AND INSURANCE
You are strongly advised to take out comprehensive medical,
accident, personal liability and possessions insurance valid for Turkey, before
you leave home. While you are here, you are eligible to use the health services
provided by the university. Foreign students are responsible themselves for the
cost of hospitalisation, medical treatment or services not available at the
university campuses.
Insurance against theft or other kinds of insurance is
voluntary and may be supplied by the students's own national insurance company .
COST OF
LIVING
It is estimated that the average monthly personal expenses for students are
about 300 Euro. This amount is expected to cover room and board, and city
transport, personal items, clothes and entertainment. Books and other
educational material can costs around 50 Euro per semester.
Average prices of some basic products and services:
|
1 Bread (200 g)
|
0.16 |
Dolmus (shared taxi) |
1,5 |
|
1 kg meat
|
0.8 |
Taxi |
0.78/km |
|
1kg potato |
0.22 |
Ferry |
0.5 |
|
1 kg tomato |
0.6 |
Sea bus |
1,7 |
|
1 kg apple |
0.7 |
Subway |
1,2 |
|
1 kg banana |
1,7 |
Inner-city by bus |
0.6 |
|
1 kg orange |
0.8 |
Inter-city by bus (one way) |
20 |
|
1 kg pasta (macaroni) |
0.4 |
Inter-city by plane (one way) |
65 |
|
Milk (1lt) |
0.5 |
Cinema ticket |
5 |
|
Coffee (500 gr) |
4 |
Concert ticket |
20 |
|
Cheese (1kg) |
6 |
Haircut |
5 |
|
Beer (1 bottle) |
0.6 |
Tip |
10 % of the bill |
ADVISORY AND
COUNSELING SERVICES
Health, Culture and Sports Department offers comprehensive and confidential
advisory and counseling services to the students. Since adapting to university
life is often challenging both for native and international students, the
Department aims to acquaint the incoming students with the academic, social,
intellectual and cultural aspects of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University.
PERSONAL SAFETY
Canakkale has
been rated one of the most peaceful provinces in Turkey. The crime rate is low.
You would not be expected to encounter anything other than traffic accidents
and petty theft. You should however, take normal precautions to look after you
belongings. It is quite safe for women to walk around the streets at night up to
1am.
CLIMATE
Winters are
usually mild, windy and rainy, and summers are windy and hot. Prevailing winds
are from the northeast and northwest.
Average air
and water temptarures for Ηanakkale (C°)
|
|
Jan |
Feb |
March |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
|
A |
6 |
7 |
8 |
12 |
17 |
22 |
25 |
24 |
21 |
16 |
12 |
8 |
|
W |
9 |
9 |
9 |
11 |
16 |
20 |
23 |
23 |
22 |
18 |
15 |
12 |
LOCAL TIME
GMT + 2 hrs. (Summer)
Time differences
between Turkey and some other countries :
Germany -1
France -1
England -2
Italy -1
Spain -1
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
ELECTRICITY
220
volts AC, all over Turkey. The voltage is clearly marked on all hotel outlets.
TAP WATER
It
has been chlorinated but we recommend you to prefer bottled water for drinking
which is sold acroos the city markets and newsagents.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Metric system.
POSTAL SERVICE
Canakkale Post
Office is situated at Inonu Caddesi and open Monday to Saturday from 8:30 am
till 5.30 p.m..
Postal charges
vary for different services depending on weight and destination. There is also
an express postal service (APS) operating to 90 countries for letters, documents
and small packages. A wide variety of special stamps are available in all PTT
centers for philatelists.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Books and newspapers in languages other than Turkish are not
available on Campus but may be obtained from one or two bookshops in town, along
with subscriptions to international periodicals. Students may keep up with
international news via inetnet, satellite TVor the one English language channel
(CNBC-e) brroadcast locally. All other teevision channels are in Turkish, with
foreign programmes or films usually dubbed. The radio stations in Canakkale play
a lively mix of Turkish and Western music. Greek stations are sometimes within
reach. Otherwise, to receive foreign radio broadcast a strong radio is necessry.
PHONES
The cheapest way to make domestic calls is from a public
phone using a phone card sold at the post office (PTT). If the PTT is closed,
you can usually find local entrepreneurs selling cards at a slight mark up near
the public phones.
Your next challenge is to find a phone. Lift the hand set and
push the language button for either English, German or French and see what it
says. If its says, "Welcome," you have a phone that is working. Insert the phone
card according to the arrow and you''re ready to start dialing. Inside Turkey
numbers outside your area code require a 0+ area code + number. Bodrum and Datca,
for example, are in the same area code and don''t require an 0 + area code. If
you dial an area code when you don''t need one, you''ll just get a busy signal.
If you use a Contour Telephone at your pension or a shop,
expect to pay 3 to 4 times the PTT rate. These are not the phones tobe used for
International calls. To make a long distance international call you will need at
least one 100 unit phone card. It maybe good for from 2 - 4 minutes. The card is
around $4. If you wish to dial an operator in your home country, use the home
direct phone number, which is free
BANKS
All major Turkish
Bank have branches in the centre of the town where you can open accounts in
different currencies. They are open Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm. There
are cash points belonging to Isbank, Akbank, Garanti Bak on Anafartalar Campus,
and Garanti Bank on Terzioglu Campus. Other cash dispensing machines are placed
at busy junctions around Canakkale.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Canakkale is a
small city and many students walk from their hostels or homes to Anafartalar
Campus. Students at Terzioglu Campus usually catch a minibus. Private minibuses
circle the city all day long and most locations are within easy reach.
Municipality buses run along similar routes and issue monthly passes (around 10
euro) that can be economical for students. Minibuses have reduced rates for
students and one trip costs about 0.75 Euro. Private hostels often have their
own service minibus which delivers students to their places of study and picks
them up again later. A bicyle is quite a practical means of getting around. Few
students have cars and lack of space prohibits parking on campus for student
vehicles.
SMOKING
Smoking is forbidden in all university classrooms, corridors,
government offices and public transport. Outside these restricted areas, smoking
is common.
SOME
IDEAS WHAT TO / WHAT NOT TO BRING
-
Passport
-
Student Visa
-
Insurance documents
-
Pocket money
-
Medicine
-
Alarm Clock
-
Driving License (if you have one)
-
Camera
-
Some snacks and drinks typical for your country
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A good sense of humour!...:)
