Turkey (tur)

Turkey

Turkey ranks 4,463rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Castlebar, Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and Staßfurt. Memorable people born in Turkey include Ulfilas, Nizamüddin Ahmed Pasha, and Burhan Sargun. Memorable people who died in Turkey include Justinian II, Ismail al-Jazari, and Occhiali. Turkey has been the birth place of many religious figures and politicians and the death place of many politicians and inventors. Turkey is located in Turkey.

Turkey or Türkiye, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country located at the juncture of Southeast Europe and West Asia. It is mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in West Asia, with a small portion called East Thrace on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is off the south coast. Most of the country's citizens are ethnic Turks, while Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city, while Istanbul is its largest city and economic and financial centre. Read more on Wikipedia