This website aims to promote the Turkish Pavilion which will be held at the International EXPO in Zaragoza, Spain, this year. It will inform you, our foreign guests, about our country and what it has achieved. You can find detailed answers to any questions you may have on this website and at the Turkish Pavilion. Please contact us for additional information. It will be our pleasure to assist you.

The best way for our foreign guests to receive information about us is to visit us in Turkey. Thus, they will be able to appreciate “Turkey and Water” relations. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Turkey every year. Last year 24 million tourists visited Turkey. If you visit the Turkish Pavilion, we promise a warm welcome, a festivity which motivates your senses and an unforgettable trip in any month of the year. We thank you in advance for your interest.

Introductory space whose main purpose is transmitting that Turkey is a land marked with the presence of water and the importance it has had and still has for Turkey. From the conceptual point of view...	Where the historical tradition of the use of water in Turkey is shown from the point of view of large infrastructures (channeling and supply) as well as the social, artistic, political and mythological life...
1. Water-Source of life:	2. Fountains for Life:

Where infrastructural works carried out in Turkey are exhibited as well as future projects to recover and take advantage of the water resources available in those areas where they are scarce... It is conceived as a multifunctional space, located at the very end of the itinerary of the exhibition. It hosts: a space that works as a PAINTING WORKSHOP FOR EBRU – where examples of this art there... 3. Water and Life for All: 4. Pleasures of Water:

ISTANBUL 2010 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE

İstanbul has been selected the European Capital of Culture in 2010 and the Agency of İstanbul 2010 ECoC is in charge  of preparing the city for 2010 by organizing artistic and cultural activities and developing urban projects that will highlight the glamorous cultural heritage of İstanbul.  At Expo Zaragoza 2008, two dance performances will be represented by two Turkish young artists İlyas Odman and Nezaket Ekici in the aegis of İstanbul 2010.

İlyas Odman’s spectacle untitled the “Fluidity- Body’s Bowl”  will be performed on the 20th of July, and Nezaket Ekici’s “Fountain” on the 2nd of August at the Balcony of Culture. These two young dancers perform and collaborate all around the world.