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Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
Turkey, born in 1923 from the remnants of the former Ottoman Empire, is home to a unique intersection of culture as the nation bridges Asia with Europe. In recent years, power struggles between a ...
Agriculture is still an important sector of Turkey's economy, and the country is one of the world's top ten agricultural producers. [53] Wheat, sugar beet, milk, poultry, cotton, vegetables and fruit are major products; [54] and Turkey is the world's largest grower of hazelnuts, [55] apricots, [54] and oregano. [56]
The Anatolian side of Turkey is the largest portion in the country [1] that bridges southeastern Europe and west Asia. East Thrace, the European portion of Turkey comprises 3% [2] of the landmass but over 15% [2] of the population. East Thrace is separated from Asia Minor, the Asian portion of Turkey, by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara and the ...
Agriculture is still an important sector of Turkey's economy, and the country is one of the world's top ten agricultural producers. [1] Wheat, sugar beet, milk, poultry, cotton, vegetables and fruit are major products; [2] and Turkey is the world's largest grower of hazelnuts, [3] apricots, [2] and oregano.
Holiday staples include delicious foods like honey-baked ham, roasted beef tenderloin, and one of the most iconic holiday foods of them all: turkey.
In 2023, Turkey ranked 39th in the world and 4th among its upper-middle income group in the Global Innovation Index. [359] It was one of the countries with a notable increase in the past decade. [360] Contemporary Turkish scientists include Aziz Sancar, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on how cells repair damaged DNA. [361]
*Pre-World War II: 137,921 (1926 Soviet Census). [48] The Turkish population was not recorded in later censuses; nonetheless, it is estimated that 200,000 Meskhetian Turks were deported to Central Asia in 1944. [48] *Post-World War II: The Meskhetian Turk population in the USSR was published for the first in the 1970 census.