PRACTICAL INFORMATION


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 temperatures for Çanakkale (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

Netherlands

-1

Austria

-1

Spain

-1


NATIONAL HOLIDAYS of 2011 / 2012

28th August 2011     Eve of Ramadan Feast (1/2 day)
29th -31th August 2011     3-day Ramadan Feast
29th October 2011     Republic Day
06th - 9th November 2011     4-day Sacrifice Feast
1st January 2012     New Year's Day
23rd April 2012     National Sovereignty & Children's Day
19th May 2012     Youth and Sports Day
30th August 2012     Victory Day

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 internet, satellite TV or the one English language channel (CNBC-e) broadcast locally. All other television 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 necessary.

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. Çanakkale and Assos, 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 3 - 10 minutes. The card is around 3 euros.


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 Bank, Vakıfbank on Anafartalar Campus, and Garanti Bank, Vakıfbank and Ziraat 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. Minibuses have reduced rates for students and one trip costs about 0.75 Euro. 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

All papers related to your exhange programme
Passport
Visa
Insurance documents
Pocket money
Medicine
Alarm Clock
Driving License (if you have one)
Camera
Some snacks and drinks typical for your country
A good sense of humour!...:)