North Anatolian Fault North Anatolian Fault The North Anatolian Fault (NAF) () is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia which runs along the transform boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Anatolian Plate. The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova Triple Junction in eastern Turkey, across northern Turkey and into the Aegean Sea for a length of 1500 kilometers. It runs about 20 km south of Istanbul. The North Anatolian Fault is similar in many ways to the San Andreas Fault in California. Both are continental transforms with similar lengths and slip rates.
Samsun Atatürk Anatolian High School High-School). On 26 October 1930, the school is visited by M.Kemal Atatürk, and he said one of the most famous quotes of him there, ""Teachers, we set up the Republic but you are the ones who will cause it to rise and make it live. Republic wants you generations which have free mind, free conscience, free knowledge and high character.The real lighter in life is Science."" In 1998 it became an Anatolian High School and took the name "Ataturk Anatolian High School". Samsun Atatürk Anatolian High School Samsun Atatürk Anatolian High School () is an Anatolian High School, educating in