What is Turkey?

Turkey may refer to:

• Turkey, a sovereign nation spanning Southeastern Europe (Rumelia) and western Asia (Anatolia)
• Turkey (bird), a large bird native to North America

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Turk, Turkic or Turkish may refer to:

Languages

• The Turkic languages family
• The Turkish language

People / Groups

• A member of the Turkic peoples
• A member of the Turkish people

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A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization.
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For the Radiohead song, see "The National Anthem".

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. The city has a population (as of 2005) of 4,319,167 (Province 5,153,000), and a mean elevation of 850 m (2800 ft). It was formerly known as Angora.
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Demographics of the Republic of Turkey

1961-2005
Size: 72,974,000^[1]
(2006 est.)
Growth: 1.25% (2005 est.)
Birth: 16.62 births/1,000
population (2006 est.)
Death: 5.97 deaths/1,000
population (2006 est.)
Life expectancy: 72.62 years (2006 est.
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State Party  Turkey
Type Cultural
Criteria i, ii, iii, iv
Reference 356
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1985  (9th Session)
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An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. It is typically the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, though the law in many nations requires that government documents be produced in other
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Turkish (Türkçe, ] (help info )
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A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word, e.g., the "French" (language or people).
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Turks (Turkish: Türkler), or the Turkish people (Türk Halkı), are a nation (Millet) defined more by a sense of sharing a common Turkish culture and having a Turkish mother tongue by citizenship, religion or by being subjects to any particular
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state.
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republic, for all other uses see: republic (disambiguation)

List of forms of government

• Anarchism
• Aristocracy
• Authoritarianism
• Autocracy
• Communist state
• Democracy

Direct democracy

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Turkey

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Politics of Turkey

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• Politics
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• Abdullah Gl

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Turkey

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Turkey

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• Politics
• President (List)
• Abdullah Gl

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Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi

Type Unicameral

Speaker Köksal Toptan

Members 550
Political groups Justice and Development Party
Republican People's Party
Nationalist Movement Party
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Turkey

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Turkey

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• Politics
• President (List)
• Abdullah Gl

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Turkey

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Turkey

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• Politics
• President (List)
• Abdullah Gl

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Ottoman Empire or Ottoman Caliphate (1299 to 1922) (Old Ottoman Turkish: دولت عالیه عثمانیه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish:
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Turkish War of Independence (Turkish: Kurtuluş Savaşı or İstiklâl Harbi) refers to the political and military events following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire along with the Central Powers in World War I and subsequent Allied occupation of
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May 19 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1880s  1890s  1900s  - 1910s -  1920s  1930s  1940s
1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922

Year 1919 (MCMXIX
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"The establishment of the Turkish national movement" explains the creation of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The establishment of an alliance of Turkish revolutionaries during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire resulted in the declaration of the Republic of Turkey and
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April 23 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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1917 1918 1919 - 1920 - 1921 1922 1923

Year 1920 (MCMXX
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October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:

Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem

St.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1890s  1900s  1910s  - 1920s -  1930s  1940s  1950s
1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926

Year 1923 (MCMXXIII
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