By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

Since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, Anatolia has become Turkey, its inhabitants being mainly Turks and Kurds ( see demographics of Turkey and history of Turkey ).

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

An economic blockade with Turkey and Azerbaijan has cut Armenia's rail link between Gyumri and Kars to Turkey ; the rail link with Iran through the Azeri exclave of Nakhichevan ; and a natural gas and oil pipeline line with Azerbaijan.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

By one estimate, it has the fourth highest gross national income at purchasing power parity in Africa, giving it a standard of living around that of Mexico and Turkey.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

In 1983, the Turkish Cypriots declared an independent " Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ", which has never been recognized by any country except Turkey and Pakistan.

The division of Cyprus has remained an intractable political problem plaguing relations between Greece and Turkey, and drawing in NATO, of which both Greece and Turkey are members, and latterly the European Union, which has admitted Greece and Cyprus and which Turkey has been seeking to join for over twenty years.

* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

:* Partial reconstruction of the Monument, a large and elaborate Lykian tomb from the site of Xanthos in south-west Turkey

Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th century and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East.

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

A series of large privatizations, the stability fostered by the start of Turkey ’ s EU accession negotiations, strong and stable growth, and structural changes in the banking, retail, and telecommunications sectors have all contributed to the rise in foreign investment.

After the Soviets conquered these republics, the territory under Armenian control, by and large, went to Turkey ; whereas the territory under Georgian control mostly reverted to the Soviet Union after Georgia's fall in March 1921.

It is native to a large area of Europe, stretching from the Pyrenees in the west, through France and Germany to Poland in the north, Italy, Northern Greece, Ukraine, and European Turkey.

From the 19th century, a large portion of the Muslim peoples ( termed ' Muhacir ' under a general definition ) of the Balkans, Caucasus, Crimea and Crete took refuge in present-day Turkey and shaped that country's fundamental features.

According to the BBC, this signified a boost in ties that was due in large part to Israel's rift with Turkey.

The story of Mesopotamian architecture begins in southeastern Turkey with the erection of large monoliths at the site of Göbekli Tepe.

Kennan was also involved, along with others in the Truman administration, in creating the Marshall Plan, which also began in 1947, to give aid to the countries of Western Europe ( along with Greece and Turkey ), in large part with the hope of keeping them from falling under Soviet domination.

Cuero and its large turkey growing industry bills itself as the " Turkey Capital of the World ".

By 2002 Red Wing Sand and Gravel of East Fishkill, New York had bought two large parcels in the northern part of the Milan ( on Turkey Hill Road and on Academy Hill Road ) with a view to operating two large-scale mines.

* Turkey ( bird ), several species of large birds in the genus Meleagris native to North America and Mexico, including the Wild Turkey, Domestic turkey, and Ocellated Turkey

* Australian Bustard, or Bush Turkey, a species of large ground bird in Australia and New Guinea

Many Nepalese volunteers served in noncombat roles, serving in units such as the Army Bearer Corps and the labour battalions, but there were also large numbers that served in combat in France, Turkey, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.

His poetry departs from his more serious sociological works, though it too harnesses nationalist sentiment: " Run, take the standard and let it be planted once again in Plevna / Night and day, let the waters of the Danube run red with blood ...." Perhaps his most famous poem was his 1911 Turan, which served to compliment his Turanist intellectual output: " For the Turks, Fatherland means neither Turkey, nor Turkestan ; Fatherland is a large and eternal country -- Turan!

Abkhaz is also spoken by members of the large Abkhaz Muhajir diaspora, which is mainly located in Turkey with smaller groups living in Syria, Iraq and Jordan ; Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara ; throughout the former USSR ( e. g. Armenia and the Ukraine ) and through more recent remigration in Western countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

In 1876, when the Eastern question was looming large, he visited Serbia and Turkey, and his subsequent speeches on the subject were marked by moderation.

Countries with large shipbuilding industries include South Korea, Australia, Japan, China, Germany, Turkey, Poland and Croatia.

At the same time Turkey ’ s political, social and economic conditions have been improving, making returning home all the more appealing for Turks at large.

The word derives from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus ( near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey ), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

In recent years, Turkey had a rapidly growing private sector, yet the state still plays a major role in industry, banking, transport, and communications.

Although the Government of Turkmenistan claims to favour trade with and export to the United States and Turkey, it has significant commercial relationships with Russia and Iran and a growing cross-border trade with Afghanistan.

Russia preparing to let slip the " Dogs of War ," its imminent engagement in the growing Balkan Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) | conflict between Slavic states and Turkey, while policeman John Bull ( United Kingdom | Britain ) warns Russia to take care.

In the 19th century, the rising tide of nationalism and secularism among the Balkan Christian nations led to the establishment of several autocephalous national churches, generally under autonomous Patriarchs or Archbishops, leaving the Ecumenical Patriarch only direct control over the ethnically Greek-originated Orthodox Christians of Turkey, parts of Greece and the archdioceses in North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania where growing Greek and other migrant communities have gradually constituted a significant orthodox diaspora.

Fruits are mostly collected from wild plants growing on publicly accessible lands, notably Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, parts of England, Alpine countries, Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and northern parts of Turkey and Russia.

5, 000 of 10, 000 book shops in Turkey are in Istanbul, including the bookfair and growing licence trading.

Britain and France were concerned by Russia's growing influence and were determined to support Turkey and so restrict Russia.

The grounds around the tower feature a pine sapling planted on 11 November 2005 ; it was taken from the original Lone Pine growing on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.

Denizli is a growing industrial city in the southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about a hundred meters.

One is the Aegean Sea ( 250 – 300 in Greece and some 100 in Turkey ) and the other is the Western Saharan portion of Cabo Blanco ( some 130 individuals which may support the small, but growing, nucleus in the Desertas Islands – approximately 20 individuals ).

Oil-wrestling is a growing sport, not limited to Turkey only.

RICS Europe is growing throughout Europe, from France to Russia, Central and Eastern Europe to the Nordic region, the Baltics to Turkey.

Wholesale distribution in select specialty and department stores is complemented by a growing number of Bottega Veneta-owned boutiques, currently located in Italy, Brazil, Australia, United States, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Russia, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Ukraine, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Guam, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Kuwait, India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia.

It is native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, from southern Italy east across the southern Balkans to western Turkey, growing at low to moderate altitudes ( up to 1550 m in the south of the range in southwestern Turkey ), in dry areas.

They released their second album Trail Blazer in the same year and enjoyed growing popularity, both in Turkey and across the world.

By 1090, Roupen was growing old ; his command seems to have then passed entirely to his son Constantine, who in the same year conquered the strategic Cilician castle of Vahka ( today Feke in Turkey ).

As Roupen was growing old by 1090, his command seems to have passed entirely to Constantine ; and it was the latter who in the same year conquered the strategic Cilician castle of Vahka ( today Feke in Turkey ).

Offering services to 95. 4 % of Turkey ’ s population through its next generation network, the company is growing fast both in the corporate and individual services with the brand " Avea " and constantly investing in technology and infrastructure as well as in its management and approximately 2. 500 employees.

Unlike most Kurdish political parties, which adopted a rather conservative outlook and were organized around tribal leaders and structures, they had fierce stance, strong convictions, and disciplined but decentralized organization which contributed to a steady rise and growing effectiveness Transferring to southern border towns with a radical left rhetoric gave this group initial resources during a time which Turkey had problems with the Syria and was a pawn in the proxy wars of the Cold War.

Juniperus drupacea, the Syrian Juniper, is a species of juniper native to the eastern Mediterranean region from southern Greece ( Parnon Oros, Peloponnese ), southern Turkey, western Syria, and Lebanon, growing on rocky sites from 800-1700 m altitude.

The theory began with allegations that the United States government and the Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974 supported far-right terrorist groups in Italy and Turkey, where communism was growing in popularity, to spread panic among the population who would in turn demand stronger and more dictatorial governments.

Kırıkkale is a rapidly growing town in central Turkey, on the Ankara-Kayseri railway near the Kızılırmak River.