Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and North Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between East Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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... See also Education in Turkey In Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, the oldest technical university is Istanbul Technical University ... List of Technical Universities in Turkey Name City Foundation Students Notes Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Istanbul 21000 ... Ranked 108th in THES QS University ranking in ...
... also known as Antiochia, Tralles or Tralleis, modern Aydın, Turkey Alabanda or Antiochia of the Chrysaorians, Caria, modern Doğanyurt (formerly Araphisar), Aydin Province Antioch on the Maeander (Antiochia ad Mæand ...
... The postwar leaders of Turkey and Greece, Kemal Atatürk and Eleftherios Venizelos respectively, were determined to establish normal relations between the two states ... Balkan Pact of 1934, in which Greece and Turkey joined Yugoslavia and Romania in a treaty of mutual assistance and settled outstanding issues (Bulgaria refused to join) ... In 1941 Turkey was the first country to send humanitarian aid to Greece to relieve the great famine in Athens during the Axis occupation ...
... This section requires expansion Year Date Event 30 ... January Turkey and Greece sign the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations agreement 24 July Turkey and. 30 ... October Greece and Turkey sign "Convention of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation, with Annexes and Protocol of Signature". 14 ... September Greece and Turkey sign Pact of Cordial Friendship ...
More definitions of "turkey":
- (noun): An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual.
Example: "The first experiment was a real turkey"
Synonyms: bomb, dud
- (noun): A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923.
Synonyms: Republic of Turkey
- (noun): Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food.
Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo
- (noun): Wild turkey of Central America and northern South America.
Synonyms: ocellated turkey, Agriocharis ocellata
- (noun): A person who does something thoughtless or annoying.
Synonyms: joker
Famous quotes containing the word turkey:
“A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)