Erasmus in Kırıkkale City

The city of Kırıkkale was characterized by the modern economic renaissance of Turkey.

The city is located in the east of Turkey, 80 km from Ankara, and it is difficult to believe that this city in 1925 contained only 12 houses, and was supposed to name the city is “kirik” a village located 3 km north of the city with another name called “kale“ In the sense of the castle, the two were put together to make the name “Kırkkale” and the inhabitants began to migrate to this city in the 16th century when the Turkish tribes came from the east and settled in central Anatolia.

The climate of Kırıkkale 
The region is located between a hot continental climate in summer, cold and dry in winter with some rainfall and snow in the region, and precipitation occurs mostly in the seasons of spring and autumn.

Education in Kırıkkale 
The city houses the Kırıkkale School, a boarding school in Turkey that aims to train exceptionally talented students in a curriculum focused on natural sciences and mathematics.

Kırıkkale School has been ranked among the top 50 secondary schools in Turkey based on the success of its students in the National University Admission Examination. The school receives 96 students per year where prospective students are selected based on their performance in the National Secondary School Admission Exam with a score of 99.2 percent. State secondary schools of science.

The language of instruction is Turkish with English as a second language. The focus is on mathematics and natural sciences including physics, chemistry and biology in the curriculum, and there are also selective courses on advanced topics in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and analytical engineering. The University has more than 300,000 students in various disciplines.

In less than a hundred years, the city has become an important economic and commercial center in Turkey, and a major artery of military industries in the country, where more than 2 million people, and the city also includes a number of vital factories such as: 
Weapons factories
Manufacture of chemicals
Iron and steel factories
Wood materials factories.
 
Events and important places of interest in Kırıkkale Turkey
This city is one of the closest cities to Ankara, has become a city located in the center of the country with many tourist and archaeological places in addition to the beautiful nature that it enjoys, has become one of the most famous Turkish cities that go to the tourists of the world, and to you the most famous tourist places in the city that you can go When you travel to Kırıkkale .

- Kırıkkale city center
It is an archaeological center located in the center of the city, which contains government buildings, and mummified statues of some Ottoman sultans signify the economic and commercial renaissance that Turkey has achieved in its last years.

- Sulu Cave

It is one of the marvels of nature and its paintings of terrain drawings, which include secrets dug millions of years, but was discovered only two decades ago it is the natural Sulu Cave.

- Shrine of the Rock
The shrine of the rock is a cemetery from the ice age, which shows the old life in this city, where the cave resembles the ancient man, and this shrine is one of the dazzling nature in Turkey.

- The historic Cicengir Bridge
It is one of the artifacts that differ from the rest of the bridges in the magnificence of design and implementation, dating back more than 700 years was one of the bridges built with cut stone.