During the Russo-Turkish War, Alexandra was clearly partial against Turkey and towards Russia, where her sister was married to the Tsarevitch, and she lobbied for a revision of the border between Greece and Turkey in favour of the Greeks.

Her relationship with Persia deteriorated, and she began raiding the satrapies of Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes in modern Turkey.

In 2009 she toured in Turkey, France, Japan, Switzerland and Belgium.

Italy reneges on her alliance with the Central Powers ( she joined the Allies in 1915 ) but Turkey joins them instead.

In 1937 Ella Maillart returned to Asia for Le Petit Parisien to report on Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, while in 1939 she undertook a trip from Geneva to Kabul by car, in the company of the Swiss writer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach.

When she died, Antiochus IV in her honor founded a town called Iotape ( modern Aytap, Turkey ).

In Europe, she is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with her hit song " Every Way That I Can ", although she has had many other achievements outside Turkey.

While in Turkey, she also recorded a particularly amusing incident in which a group of Turkish women, horrified by the sight of the corset she was wearing, exclaimed that " the husbands in England were much worse than in the East, for tied up their wives in little boxes, the shape of their bodies ".

In 1717, she went to live in Turkey with her husband, the British ambassador to that country, and stayed for two years.

In 1721, after a smallpox epidemic struck England, she had her three-year-old daughter inoculated by Charles Maitland, a physician who had been at the embassy in Turkey, and publicized the event.

However, her letters from Turkey were clearly intended for print, she revised them extensively and gave a transcript to the Rev.

Meanwhile, he was reported “ injurious information ” about his queen ; therefore Leo had numerous members of her suite put to death and attacked her personally before imprisoning her in the fortress of Vahka ( today Feke in Turkey ) where she was poisoned some time later.

Luisa is thought to be eponymous of the popular American dish Turkey Tetrazzini, which allegedly originated in San Francisco, where she resided for years.

However, Turkey restated that she was against this and threatened war if Cyprus tried to achieve unity with Greece.

In 1962, she toured Turkey giving concerts with her young protégée Idil Biret, and later in the year was received at the White House in America by president John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy.

In her retirement at Asolo, apart from a short survey, Turkey: A Sketch of Turkish History ( 1971 ), she busied herself by putting together a new collection of essays, A Peak in Darien ( 1976 ), and preparing selections of her Letters ( 8 volumes, 1974-82 ; one volume, Over the rim of the world: selected letters, 1982 ) and of her travel writings, The Journey's Echo ( 1988 ).

A turning point in her life came in 1954 when she was appointed Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Ankara ( Turkey ).

She eventually defected and was helped by an OSS agent to board the Taurus Express from Ankara to Istanbul, but alighting before the city, she was taken to an air base that the RAF was then building in Turkey.

* November 21 – 24 – In an attempt to deliver medical supplies to munitions to German ground forces in German East Africa, the German Navy Zeppelin L 59, specially modified for long-range flights, makes a 6, 757 km ( 4, 196-statute mile ) journey from Yambol, Bulgaria, over European Turkey, Asia Minor, and the Mediterranean Sea and into Africa to a point west of Khartoum before being recalled to Yambol, which she reaches after 95 hours 5 minutes continuously in the air at an average speed of 71 km / h ( 44 mph ).

Opposed to the accession of Turkey to the European Union, she prefers the option of a " privileged partnership ".

It was proposed that the demilitarized zone of the Straits should be reduced to the following lines: on the European side-Gallipoli peninsula and the coast along the Sea of Marmora as far as Rodosto ; on the Asiatic side-from a point opposite the isle of Tenedos to Kara-Bigha ( west of Panderma ), including the islands in the Sea of Marmora and the European and Asiatic shores of the Bosporus ; the expression " demilitarized " zone was to mean that whereas the Allies might send troops to this zone, both Greece and Turkey should be deprived of this right ; the east coast of the Sea of Marmora was excluded from the demilitarized zone ; the Allied troops occupying Constantinople were to be withdrawn, after the Allies had satisfied themselves of the bona-fide peaceful intentions of the Turks ; Turkey was to have an equal voice on the international committee established to control the Straits, receiving two votes instead of one ; and if Turkey's attitude on the whole proved satisfactory, she would, in all probability, be offered the honorary presidency of the commission.

After 1923 Afyon became a part of the Republic of Turkey.

Following the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, Bursa became one of the industrial centers of the country.

The economic development of the city was followed by population growth and Bursa became the 4th most populous city in Turkey.

In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey ; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques ( Botstein, § 6 ).

" Although based on a simplistic analysis of internal strife in Greece and Turkey, it became the single dominating influence over U. S. policy until at least the Vietnam War.

In 1922, the last Ottoman sultan was deposed and in 1923 Ankara became the new capital of Turkey.

Çevik Bir, who was then a lieutenant-general of Turkey, became the force commander of UNOSOM II in 1993.

Britain became increasingly worried about the situation in Turkey and Prime Minister Aberdeen sent Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, a diplomat with vast experience in Turkey, as a special envoy to the Ottoman Empire to guard British interests.

He was promoted to Pasha and, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, became the founder of the modern Turkish state with the title Atatürk, the Father of Turkey.

By the turn of the 19th century they became new powers, having divided Poland between them, with Sweden and Turkey having experienced substantial territorial losses to Russia and Austria respectively as well as pauperisation.

During his time in Turkey, he became friends with another staff officer named Franz von Papen.

This mandate included Lebanon ; Hatay ( a former Ottoman Alexandretta sandjak ) broke away from it and became a French protectorate until it was ceded to the new Republic of Turkey.

He became a smuggler between Turkey and Bulgaria.

Pergamon ( or ἡ Πέργαμος ), or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Aeolis, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus ( modern day Bakırçay ), that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281 – 133 BC.

The Gregorian Calendar was instituted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Romania accepted it in 1919 under king Ferdinand of Romania ( 1 November 1919 became 14 November 1919 ), Turkey in 1923 under Ataturk, and the last Orthodox country to accept the calendar was Greece also in 1923.

Musharraf's family moved to Ankara in 1949, when his father became part of a diplomatic deputation from Pakistan to Turkey.

After the entry of Turkey on the side of the Central Powers in October 1914, Russia was deprived of a major trade route through Turkey, which followed with a minor economic crisis, in which Russia became incapable of providing munitions to their army in the years leading to 1917.

On July 11, 2002, Turkey became a Level 3 partner of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) development program.

After Germany conquered the Balkan states, and the Axis ( Germany and Italy ) became neighbours with Turkey in the Aegean Sea, Turkey signed a Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression with Germany on June 18, 1941.

On 18 February 1952, Turkey became a member of NATO.

* Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor ( modern Izmit in Turkey ), a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids was the capital of Diocletian, the eastern ( and most senior ) Augustus ; in the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the equivalent of his domain, facing the most redoubtable foreign enemy, Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens ' the East ', the core of later Byzantium.

In Turkey, Tansu Ciller became the first female prime minister in 1993 ( till 1996 ).