Turkey , country, Asia and Europe: History

Although Anatolia (the western portion of Asian Turkey) is one of the oldest inhabited regions of the world, the history of Turkey as a national state began only with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. For the earlier history of the region now constituting Turkey, see (for the ancient period) Asia Minor; Ionia; Pontus; Thrace; Byzantium; (for the medieval period) Byzantine Empire; Armenia; Turks; Konya; Karaman; Nicaea, empire of; Trebizond, empire of; (for the modern period before 1918) Ottoman Empire; Eastern Question.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Domestic and Foreign Strife
• The Second Turkish Republic
• Turkey after Atatürk
• Kemal Atatürk and the Republic
• The Establishment of Modern Turkey
• History
• Government
• Economy
• Land and People
• Bibliography

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