PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Turkey
Officially the Republic of Turkey, it is a contiguous transcontinental country,
located mostly on Anatolia in Western Asia and on East Thrace in Southeastern
Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria; Greece; Georgia; Armenia; Iran; the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan; Iraq and Syria.
President: Abdullah Gül
Independence: 1923
Capital: Ankara
Currency: Turkish lira
Official languages: Turkish
The Turkish Armed Forces consists of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
The Gendarmerie and the Coast Guard operate as parts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in peacetime, although they are subordinate to the Army and Navy
commands respectively in wartime, during which they have both internal law
enforcement and military functions.
Information taken from CIA Factbook.
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