Turkey: Muckle kintra in Eurasie

It haes laund mairches wi Greece an Bulgarie tae the wast an Georgie, Armenie, Azerbaijan (kent thegither as the "Caucasus" kintras), Iran, Iraq an Sirie tae the east an watter mairches wi the Mediterranean Sea tae the sooth. The maist o Turkis citisens are ethnic turks, wi kurds bein the lairgest minoritie in the kintra.

Republic o Turkey Türkiye Cumhuriyeti  (Turkis)
Banner Naitional emblem
Anthem: [İstiklal Marşı] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help) "Unthirldom Mairch"
Caipital	Ankara 39°55′N 32°50′E / 39.917°N 32.833°E / 39.917; 32.833
Lairgest ceety	Istanbul 41°1′N 28°57′E / 41.017°N 28.950°E / 41.017; 28.950
Offeecial leids	Turkis
Spoken leids	Turkis, Kurmanji, Arabic, Zaza, Kabardian, various leids
Ethnic groups	No offeecial estimates
Demonym(s)	Turkis
Govrenment	Unitary pairlamentary constitutional republic
• Preses	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
• Vice President	Fuat Oktay
• Speaker o the Pairlament	Mustafa Şentop
Legislatur	Grand Naitional Assembly
Succession tae the Ottoman Empire
• Govrenment o the Grand Naitional Assembly	23 Aprile 1920
• Treaty o Lausanne	24 Julie 1923
• Declaration o Republic	29 October 1923
• Current constitution	7 November 1982
Aurie
• Total	783,562 km2 (302,535 sq mi) (37t)
• Water (%)	1.3
Population
• 2014 census	77,695,904 (18t)
• Density	101/km2 (261.6/sq mi) (107t)
GDP (PPP)	2014 estimate
• Total	$1.586 trillion
• Per capita	$20,299
GDP (nominal)	2014 estimate
• Tot	$861 billion
• Per capita	$11,018
Gini (2013)	40.0 medium · 56t
HDI (2021)	0.838 verra heich · 48t
Currency	Turkis lira ₺ (TRY)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy (AD)
Drivin side	right
Cawin code	+90
ISO 3166 code	TR
Internet TLD	.tr
Wabsteid www.turkiye.gov.tr

The kintra wis the centre o the Ottoman Empire that haed owerins ower mony different kintras in baith wast Asie an sooth-east Europe. Houaniver, efter the First Warld War the Ottoman Empire wis malafousterd. It haed been allee'd tae Germany an efter the defeat o thon kintra an it's allees thare wis a brief period o occupation o twa o the kintra's muckle maist cities; Istanbul an Izmir bi the Allee'd Pooers. Houaniver, the kintra wis leeberatit unner the heidsmanship o Mustafa Kemal, kent forby as Atatürk (The Faither o the Turks in Turkis) an it becam an unthirlt republic in the 1920s. The caipital o Turkey is Ankara, but its muckle maist ceety is Istanbul that's seetuate in the wast o the kintra an wis historically kent as "Constantinople" an wis the caipital o the "Eastren Roman" or "Byzantine Empire".

Turkey haes aboot 74,816,000 fowk in it.