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Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye ['ty?cije]), officially the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ['ty?cije d?um'hu:?ijeti] ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered on its northwest by Greece and Bulgaria; north by the Black Sea; northeast by Georgia; east by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran; southeast by Iraq; south by Syria and the Mediterranean Sea; and west by the Aegean Sea. Approximately 70 to 80 percent of the country's citizens are ethnic Turks. Istanbul, which straddles Europe and Asia, is the country's largest city, while Ankara is the capital.
One of the world's earliest permanently settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neolithic sites, and was inhabited by various civilisations. Hellenization started in the area during the era of Alexander the Great and continued into the Byzantine era. The Seljuk Turks began migrating in the 11th century, and the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, when it disintegrated into small Turkish principalities. Beginning in the late 13th century, the Ottomans started uniting the principalities and conquering the Balkans, and the Turkification of Anatolia increased during the Ottoman period. After Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman expansion continued under Selim I. During the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire became a world power. From the late 18th century onwards, the empire's power declined with a gradual loss of territories and wars. In an effort to consolidate the weakening empire, Mahmud II started a period of modernisation in the early 19th century. The 1913 coup d'état effectively put the country under the control of the Three Pashas, who were largely responsible for the Empire's entry into World War I in 1914. During World War I, the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Assyrian and Pontic Greek subjects. After the Ottomans and the other Central Powers lost the war, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned into several new states. The Turkish War of Independence, initiated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his comrades against the occupying Allied Powers, resulted in the abolition of the sultanate on 1 November 1922, and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923.
Turkey is a developing country, a regional power, and a newly industrialized country, with a geopolitically strategic location. It is a charter member of the UN, an early member of NATO, the IMF, and the World Bank, and a founding member of the OECD, OSCE, BSEC, OIC, and G20. After becoming one of the early members of the Council of Europe in 1950, Turkey became an associate member of the EEC in 1963, joined the EU Customs Union in 1995, and started accession negotiations with the European Union in 2005. In a non-binding vote on 13 March 2019, the European Parliament called on the EU governments to suspend Turkey's accession talks; which, despite being stalled since 2018, remain active as of 2020. Turkey is a secular, unitary, formerly parliamentary republic that adopted a presidential system with a referendum in 2017; the new system came into effect with the presidential election in 2018. (Full article...)
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TCG Heybeliada (F-511) is the lead ship of the Ada-class ASW corvettes of the Turkish Navy. Heybeliada was named after Heybeliada Island, where the Turkish Naval High School is located. Heybeliada Island is part of the Prince Islands archipelago in the Sea of Marmara, to the southeast of Istanbul.
Designed, developed and built by the Tuzla (Istanbul) Naval Shipyard as a part of the MILGEM project, it was laid down on 22 January 2007, launched on 27 September 2008, and commissioned on 27 September 2011. (Full article...)General images
Ahmed Hamdi Akseki Mosque (2013)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan won a number of awards in the annual Cannes Film Festival, including the best director award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his film Üç Maymun ("Three Monkeys"). He has also won five FIPRESCI awards.
Designed by ?ekip Akal?n, Ankara Central Station (1937) is a notable art deco design of its era.
Topographic map of Turkey
Tevfik Fikret (1867-1915) was a prominent Turkish poet of the late Ottoman era.
Mehmed II enters Constantinople by Fausto Zonaro
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
Skycrapers in Levent district of Istanbul
First Ziraat Bank Headquarters (1925-29) in Ankara designed by Giulio Mongeri is an important symbol of the First National Architectural Movement.
Interior of the ?akirin Mosque (2005-09)
Interior of the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Map showing the Anatolian Plate, the North Anatolian Fault and East Anatolian Fault in Turkey.
Mount Erciyes near Kayseri
Fault lines and earthquakes
Karagöz and Hacivat are the lead characters of the traditional Turkish shadow play, popularized during the Ottoman period.
?akirin Mosque (2005-09)
Topkap? Palace, Istanbul.
One of the main entrance gates of the Dolmabahçe Palace.
Antalya
Ankara
Ankara Opera House, designed by ?evki Balmumcu (1933-34) and renovation by Paul Bonatz (1946-47).
View of Bursa from the hills near Mount Uluda?, the ancient Mysian Olympus
Sami Frashëri (1850-1904) and his wife Emine, May 1884.
Orhan Veli Kan?k was the founder of the Garip Movement in Turkish poetry.
The Kaçkar Range at altitudes of 3000 m and above is heavily glaciated.
Originally a church, later a mosque, and now a Grand mosque, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was built by the Byzantines in the 6th century.
Nam?k Kemal was a prominent Turkish poet, novelist, playwright and journalist of the late-19th-century Ottoman Empire.
A view from the interior of a traditional Turkish house, by John Frederick Lewis (1805–1875)
The sultan of the golden age, Suleiman the Magnificent.
The Ishak Pasha Palace, Eastern Turkey.
The Eastern Black Sea Region features densely forested slopes.
Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem (1847-1914) was another prominent Turkish poet of the late Ottoman era.
Istanbul University Faculty of Science and Faculty of Literature Buildings (1944-52) designed by Sedad Hakk? Eldem and Emin Onat
View of Beyda?lar? Coastal National Park
Beaches and marina of Kemer near Antalya on the Turkish Riviera
Isbank Tower 1 (1995-2000) in Levent district of Istanbul
An Oil wrestling tournament in Istanbul. This has been the national sport of Turkey since Ottoman times.
Roosevelt, ?nönü and Churchill at the Second Cairo Conference which was held between 4-6 December 1943.
Köppen climate types of Turkey
Istanbul Sapphire (2006-11) is the tallest building in Turkey and 4th in Europe.
Turkish national basketball team won the silver medal in the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Faz?l Hüsnü Da?larca was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published, laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award.
Istanbul
Map of earthquakes in Turkey 1900-2017
An?tkabir designed by Emin Halid Onat and Ahmet Orhan Arda (1944-53)
Thrace and the Thracian Odrysian kingdom in its maximum extent under Sitalces (431-424 BC)
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- ... that Hagia Sophia (pictured) in Turkey has runic inscriptions left by Vikings? (February 29, 2008) popflock.com Resource: Recent additions 209
- ... that in the 16th century the Church of St. Mary of Constantinople (pictured) in Istanbul was the center of a quarter mainly inhabited by Italians deported from the city of Caffa in Crimea? (December 4, 2011)
- ... that the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as a coup by memorandum? (August 10, 2004) popflock.com Resource: Recent additions 13
- ... that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman-Safavid War of 1623-1639? (November 29, 2008) popflock.com Resource: Recent additions 235
- ... that the Ottoman frigate Ertu?rul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off Kushimoto, led to strengthening foreign relations between Turkey and Japan? (January 16, 2008) popflock.com Resource: Recent additions 200
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Hrant Dink funeral
Antalya
the Bosphorus Bridge
Safranbolu
the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne
A Kocek
Atatürk praying
18th-century Ottoman barber's apron
1. picture on portal: The prominent towers of Dayro d-Mor Gabriel; 15th December 2005
The ancient Lake Abant Nature Park in Bolu
The sun setting over the Golden Horn in the city of Istanbul.
Aydilge Sarp; Turkish singer, songwriter and novelist
Flag of Turkey, from flowers
The tughra of Mahmud II. "Mahmud Han bin Abdulhamid muzaffer daima" ("Mahmud Khan son of Abdulhamid is forever victorious").
The Temple of Athena at Priene, an ancient site near Turunçlar in Ayd?n province.
Tarkan with Hungarian fans
Iznik, 16th-century vase
A faculty of Sakarya University
Male Bellydancer in Istanbul
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Kemal Dervi? (Turkish pronunciation: [ke'mal de?vi?]; born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations". In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll conducted by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines. He is Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and part-time professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
In March 2015, Dervi? agreed to become the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the economy in a cabinet led by Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu should his party form the government after the general election to be held in June. He declined to become a Member of Parliament however, stating that he would prefer to participate in the cabinet from outside the Parliament. (Full article...)Selected video -
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| " | Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well. | " |
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