General Information About YALOVAThe first settlement in the region dates back to the Prehistoric Period, in around 3000 BC.
The HittitesThe Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC.... ruled the region in the 2000s BC, followed by the Phrygians in the 1200s BC. The region was conquered by the
RomansAncient RomeAncient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city-state of Rome, founded in the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BCE.... in 74 BC.
Following the division of the Roman EmpireThe Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Rome civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government.... in 395, the region of Yalova remained under the sovereignty of the
Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople..... In 1302, Yalova was incorporated into the territory of the
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire , is also sometimes known in the Western world as the Turkish Empire.....
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and Father of the Nation Turkey as well as its first President.... occasionally lived in Yalova in his final years. In one of his speeches he famously said "Yalova is my city."Yalova is a city located in northwestern
Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwest Asia Asia and the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe Europe...., on the eastern coast of the
Sea of Marmara , also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating the Asian part of Turkey from its European part...., and is the capital of the
Yalova Province 
Yalova Province Yalova is a Provinces of Turkey in northwestern Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa Province to the south, and Kocaeli Province to the west..... Yalova has a city population of 90.000, while the population of the Yalova Province is 188,440.
Yalova has a number of tourist attractions, such as the kösk (Ottoman-Turkish style mansion) used by Atatürk during his visits to the city, and of course, its famous hot springs in
Termal
Termal Termal is a district of Yalova Province, Turkey...., which gets its name from the Latin word
thermae
Thermae The term thermae was the word the Ancient Rome used for the buildings housing their public baths.....
Most of the visitiors of Termal are Arabian people and all of them cannot speak English. For this reason, Arabian language gets more important for our people. Similar to English course, our centre opened a Basic Arabian course.
NLP(Neuro Linguistic Programming) specialist Ayşen Turna gave a conference about "psychological reflections of verbal communication with foreigners" on May,21st. Summary of her speech is above.
COMMUNICATION RULES FOR FOREIGNERS
Most of the Roman people who live in Yalova do not continue with their primary education. As they don’t know reading-writing they have difficulties in their daily life. For this reason, they need a Turkish course in order to get over their communication problems and successfully adapt themselvels to the society.
Certificates were given to the five attenders who finished the course successfully.
The course was planned to be last between the dates 16/02/2009 and 09/06/2009 as 132 hours.
