Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.

Since the city is located on the State Highway 565 between İzmir and Istanbul -- Turkey's two most important ports -- Akhisar Industrial Zone offers attractive investment opportunities for both domestic and foreign investors.

Also within Europe, two essentially Islamic parties, the Democratic League of Kosovo and Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party ( usually known by the Turkish acronym AKP, for Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi ) have moved towards the tradition.

In 1991, since Turkey's election system had two large election thresholds ( 10 % nationwide and 15 % local thresholds ) and since centre-left is divided into two parties ( SHP and DSP ), social democrats and democratic left groups had little power in the parliament.

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of the Sea of Marmora was excluded from the demilitarized zone ; the Allied troops occupying Constantinople were to be withdrawn, after the Allies had satisfied themselves of the bona-fide peaceful intentions of the Turks ; Turkey was to have an equal voice on the international committee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.

In response to this murder, and kidnapping of two truck drivers ( who were later freed after their company pulled out of Iraq ), Turkey's truckers association announced that it would no longer deliver goods to U. S. forces in Iraq.

His party benefited in the 1990s from the acrimony between the leaders of Turkey's two most prominent conservative parties, Mesut Yılmaz and Tansu Çiller.

That Turkey's only two institutions specialized on mental health were until recently located in İstanbul district of Bakırköy and in Manisa gave way in Turkey's public lore to gentle innuendos on the challenging spirit of the natives-Manisalı.

He has translated Robinson Jeffers ' version of " Medea "', Neal Simon's " Lost in Yonkers "', Dear Liar " ( based on George Bernard Shaw-Mrs Patrick Campbell letters ) and Eugene O ' Neill's " The Iceman Cometh " ( for the two latters plays he won Turkey's top play translation awards.

However, the definition of Turkey's southern border in Article 3 also meant that Turkey officially ceded them.

It has been recorded from Northern Ireland, from Uşak Province in Western Turkey, and from the vicinity of Kaş in the Antalya Province of Turkey's southern coast.

Şalgam is a popular beverage from southern Turkey's cities of Adana and Mersin.

Eskişehir was also the site of Turkey's first aviation industry ( Aeronautical Supply Maintenance Centre ) and its air base was the command center of Turkey's first Tactical Air Force headquarters on NATO's southern flank during the Cold War.

His nationalist ideals espoused a de-identification with Ottoman Turkey's Muslim neighbors, in lieu of a supernational Turkish ( or pan-Turkic ) identity with " a territorial Northeast-orientation Turkish speaking peoples ".

The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, Cyprus, Turkey's Hatay Province and sometimes Iraq or the Sinai Peninsula, and corresponds roughly to the historic area of Greater Syria.

The tension between Turkey and Iraq about the issue was increased by the effect of Syria and Turkey's participation in the UN embargo against Iraq following the Gulf War.

One of Turkey's last large GAP dams on the Tigris – the Ilisu Dam – is strongly opposed by Iraq and is the source of political strife.

This sentiments was apparent during the " March 1 " incident, in which Kurdish origin representatives prevented Turkey's participation to 2003 invasion of Iraq.

From Turkey's perspective PUK was trying to push PKK out of North Iraq and KDP was getting support from PKK which was supported by Syria, Iran and Saddam.

Saddam's response to Turkey's help in negotiations between Iraq Kurds was shaped by increasingly assisting the organization.

Turkey's boundary with Syria has not been accepted by Syria.

However, Austria and Russia gave him no time for anything but defense, and it was not until the Peace of Iaşi ( 1792 ) that a breathing space was allowed him in Europe, while Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria soon called for Turkey's strongest efforts.

When Turkey first attempted to annex the province of Alexandretta in the early 1930s, al-Arsuzi became one of the most vocal critics of Turkey's policy towards Syria, making him a symbol of the Arab nationalist struggle from 1934 to 1938.

According to a survey by Forbes magazine, Istanbul, Turkey's financial capital, had a total of 28 billionaires as of March 2010 ( down from 34 in 2008 ), ranking 4th in the world behind New York City ( 60 billionaires ), Moscow ( 50 billionaires ), and London ( 32 billionaires ).

The enormous public outcry which the April Uprising had caused in Europe provoked the 1876-77 Constantinople Conference of the Great Powers, and Turkey's refusal to implement the conference decisions gave the Russians a long-waited chance to realise their long-term objectives with regard to the Ottoman Empire.

In Brazil's opening game against Turkey, Rivaldo fell to the ground clutching his face after Turkey's Hakan Ünsal had kicked the ball at his legs.

His empathy towards the non-religious elements aroused the suspicions of his more traditionalist haredi opponents, particularly that of the traditional rabbinical establishment that had functioned from the time of Turkey's control of greater Palestine, whose paramount leader was Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

By the 2000s this fusion of ethno / dance / pop had crossed over to mainstream success in the contest, with entries like Turkey's " Everyway That I Can ", Ukraine's " Wild Dances ", Greece's " My Number One " and Norway's " Fairytale " winning in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2009.

On the issues, the party under Sarkozy publicly disapproved of Turkey's proposed membership in the European Union, which Chirac had previously endorsed several times publicly, and generally took a more right-wing position.

Even with his breakaway pupil, the current Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP winning the 2004 local elections with 41. 11 %, a faithful following of 15 % ( a rarity among Turkey's provinces ) of the electorate had still voted for Erbakan, then Virtue Party, who thus came second after AKP.

Demirel had already been elected Turkey's 9th President, and his party was now led by Tansu Çiller, who became the country's first woman prime minister.

However, a number of independents later joined the party, and, in November 2004, they had 4 seats in Turkey's 549-seat parliament.

He has stressed the importance of greater respect for human rights and civil liberties as preconditions for Turkey's entry, while acknowledging the advances it had already made in this respect.

Earlier, Turkey's decision to join NATO ( placing the Bosporus Strait in the Western sphere of influence ) and the advent of long-range nuclear weapons had dramatically decreased the strategic value of any naval activity in the Black Sea.

The city remains an orderly, compact and leafy provincial center which could keep its old neighborhoods without surrendering to a boom in concrete constructions and displays a progressist mind as exemplified by the pride still expressed on having had Turkey's first female provincial governor in the 1990s, Ms. Lale Aytaman.

During those years the European Community had also become reluctant to consider Turkey's application.

Mrs. Loizidou had been forced out of her home during Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974 along with around 200, 000 other Greek-Cypriots.

In 1806, the French envoy Sebastiani had been dispatched to Constantinople with orders to bring about Turkey's re-entry into the war.

The aftermath of Turkey's invasion, however, did not safeguard the Republic's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but had the opposite effect: the de facto partitioning of the Republic, the creation of a separate political entity in the north

Acar had chanced upon some pieces of the collection for the first time in 1984 in a Met Museum catalogue and had informed Turkey's Ministry of Culture of their clear provenance, while he also wrote several articles and pursued the bureaucratic channels within Turkey with insistence throughout the affair.

He has also had a large hand in Turkey's bids to host the European Championships in 2012, UEFA Champions League Final in 2005 which was awarded to the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul and the UEFA Cup Final in 2009 which was held in Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium.

He also played for Internacional and Tubarão and had a short spell with Turkey's Galatasaray.