Turkey is a transcontinental country ‚ located mostly in Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by 8 countries. The Mediterranean Sea is to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The country’s official language is Turkish‚ which is spoken by approximately 85% of the population as mother tongue. The most numerous ethnic group is the Turks‚ who constitute between 70% and 75% of the population. Kurds are the largest ethnic minority and‚ according
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Islam‚ controlled and threatened the world by expanding and growing at a terrifying rate. Authors Geoffrey Woodward‚ Ira Lepidus‚ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk‚ Hassan al-Bana discuss how the Ottoman empire threatened and left an everlasting effect on the world. Their articles are The Ottomans in Europe‚ A History of Islamic Societies‚ A Speech Delivered by Ghazi Mustafa Kemal‚ President of the Turkish Republic‚ 1927‚ and The Tyranny of Materialism Over the Lands of Islam. Geoffrey Woodward’s article on The
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Historically in the Ottoman Empire there was a certain level of tolerance towards other cultures and religion. For millennia the Armenians‚ have had a cultural history rooted in what is today eastern Turkey. However‚ in the late 1800’s nationalism began to spread and go awry‚ causing much tension‚ then genocide. A nationalist movement began among the Armenian community living within the Ottoman Empire; in consequence‚ in the 1890s the Ottomans ordered the killing of tens of thousands of Armenians
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deserts of Iran and Afghanistan‚ to the northern tip of Africa‚ as well as European nations known today as Bulgaria‚ Bosnia and Greece. The empire began roughly the year 1299 and was led by their first sultan‚ Osman and lasted till 1924 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk‚ the nations first president‚ reformed the nation. The Ottoman Turks had many customs and traditions that were not the considered norms of many empires or nations in Europe at the time. One of which was the sultan’s harem. The harem
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Rise and Fall of Ottoman Empire And Rise of Modern Turkey Ottoman Empire also known as “Sultanat e Osmania” or Ottoman Turkish Empire was the largest Muslim empire ever established. Its territories were spread across Europe‚ Asia and Africa. In short the largeness of the Ottoman Empire could be judged from the fact that modern day Turkey‚ Greece‚ Romania‚ Bosnia‚ Poland‚ Hungary‚ Bulgaria‚ Armenia‚ Georgia‚ Albania
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-Starting from the end of WWI discuss the development in the parts of the Ottoman Empire that today make up Turkey. This questions requires you to discuss the allied occupation‚ the Sultan’s decisions‚ the resistance‚ the resistance‚ rise of Mustafa Kemal‚ the grand national assembly…. All the way through to the treaty of Lausanne. After the End of World War I‚ the former Ottoman Empire was occupied by Allied forces who occupied the entire area of modern day Turkey. The former Sultan of Ottoman
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Introduction: The Middle East as a whole is one of the biggest regions in the world which is constituted of a large number of countries that are both small and large in size‚ these countries together have been causing a huge impact throughout the years in the world economy. Out of the many countries in the middle east‚ there are those countries that cause an impact in the whole region and others that just live with the ongoing conditions. Turkey is one of those great countries that have been very
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the end of World War I for the Ottomans. It divided the Ottoman Empire up and forced the Kurds into separate countries. it was then rejected by Mustafa Kemal and leads to the War of Independence. The war for independence was to remove western occupation and influence. This leads to the Treaty of Lausanne‚ which divided the Ottoman Empire a second time. Mustafa then created the Declaration of Independence. He later agrees to the Spheres of Influence‚ which was an area which another country has the power
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ECEM HAPÇIOGLU 1605161 Democratic Consolidation in Turkey In general‚ as far as democracy and democratic consolidation in one country and state come to mean that democracy is the form of political government manner in which all of the eligible citizens claim their rights in an equal manner in order to decide their own lives and government bodies. According to Russell Hanson‚ “the people sought and gained power and influence in the name of democracy” (68). In this regard‚ democracy requires the
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treatment for a citizen from a certain religion/non-religion. However‚ unlike America‚ Islam does not separate religion from the state. Secularism in Turkey came after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. With the country getting down Mustafa Kemal Atatürk led a political and cultural revolution. Turkish modernism went through a reversal of the Islamic Ottoman system and the adoption of a west-oriented mode of modernization. This resulted in the abolition of the Caliphate. Also‚ a secular
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