Friday 13 February 2009

Turkish Republic

“Peace at Home, Peace in the World”

Turkey is a Eurasian country that connects two continents (Asia and Europe). Turkey’s neighbours are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Turkey is a peninsula that is surrounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west. There is also an inner sea called the Sea of Marmara. Turkey is a democratic and secular republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I.

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