Country Review: Turkey, the Beauteous Transcontinental Nation Part I

Country Reviews: Turkey, the Beauteous Transcontinental Nation Part One: Introduction and History

Introduction

Turkey is a Eurasian country (spanning across Europe and Asia) filled with many exotic sights and interesting things to do. In Turkey, the major religion is Islam and Islamic Muslim consists of the majority population. Turkey has many breath taking sights for the local tourists to gaze and admire upon, like the Marmaris, a resort for the foreign tourists. Turkey is surrounded by many countries like Bulgaria, Greece, and Azerbaijan, meaning that there are also a few tourists and working people from those neighboring countries. Their largest city would be Istanbul, with over 13 million living in Istanbul. Turkish is the official language of Turkey meaning street names and documents would normally contain Turkish words. Turkey’s most favorite sports would be soccer (or football) and the biggest club at Turkey consists of Galatasaray, Fenerbache and Besiktas. If you are a soccer buff, be sure to experience their hostile atmosphere against the opposition.

History

Oghuz Turks immigrated into the Anatolia region which consists of the modern Turkey and lived there. The Turkics living in the Seljuk Empire conquer Anatolia and the Anatolians are gradually being reintegrated into the Turkish society. However, during around the 1200s, Mongols invaded the Seljuk Sultanate in Turkey and began to make the Turks their vassals. This had made the Seljuk Empire lose more power in the Turkey areas. The Mongol invasion had made some of the locals move to Western Anatolia, where they managed to create Anatolian principalities, which then became the Ottoman Empire over the next hundreds of years.

However, after the World War 1, the Allies would break up Turkey’s territories and the Ottoman Empire gradually lost power. Turkey then became the Republic of Turkey where they abolished the long standing Ottoman Sultanate. After the liberalization of the Turkish Economy during the 1980s, Turkey has gone strength to strength and achieved greater economy and political stability to this day.