The Turkish Republic is a country located in the greater part of South-West Asia, as well as a small part in southeastern Europe. Located Bosporus and the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara - a reference to the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea to Asia to Europe - on its territory, making it a strategic and influential countries bordering the Black Sea. It shares borders with Georgia and Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan to the east, Iraq and Syria and the Mediterranean Sea, south of the maritime border with the Republic of Cyprus, the Aegean Sea, Greece and Bulgaria to the west, the Black Sea to the north. [1] [2] is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea.
Turkey was the center of the Ottoman Empire until 1922 that the Turkish Republic was founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The population of the Republic of Turkey, some 72 million people, according to statistics, in 2008. The demographic structure of Turkey is complex and consists of dozens of races, which are the reasons for its formation epoch of the Ottoman Empire, where the vast sphere of influence include Asia, Europe, Africa and the control of many nations. Official statistics on the number of people based on race, because the Turkish government considers Turkey a country of the Turks, regardless of their ethnic origin, which are not suitable for all minorities, especially Kurds. It is estimated that in connection with this, the Turks, the largest collection of ethnic population (about 66%), and then the Kurds (30%), and then Alzaza (branch of Kurds speak their own dialect of Kurdish language) (2%), Arabs (1 %), Circassian (0.5%) and Georgians (0.5%). There are other minorities: Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Syrians, Chaldeans (knowing that the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Syriacs (Arameans) are one nation and one of the national church to belong to more than one). Bosnians, Albanians, Chechens, Bulgarians and others Azion. Minority of the Crimean Tatars, Azerbaijanis, Algaghazah, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Kazakh Turkic minorities
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