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.

During World War I, Afghanistan remained neutral despite pressure to support Turkey when its sultan proclaimed his nation's participation in what it considered a holy war.

Historically the Arvand Roud / Shatt-al-Arab waterway ( called Arvand Roud in Iran and Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq ) and Khuzestan Province was all that remained of their prior holdings in Mesopotamia, which had been lost to Turkey centuries earlier.

The Republic of Turkey also formally accepted the loss of Cyprus ( which was leased to the British Empire following the Congress of Berlin in 1878, but de jure remained an Ottoman territory until World War I ) as well as Egypt and Sudan ( which were occupied by British forces with the pretext of " putting down the Urabi Revolt and restoring order " in 1882, but de jure remained Ottoman territories until World War I ) to the British Empire, which had unilaterally annexed them on 5 November 1914.

Hatay Province remained a part of the French Mandate of Syria according to the Treaty of Lausanne, but in 1938 gained its independence as the Hatay State, which later joined Turkey after a referendum in 1939.

Although Kamieniec Podolski remained a part of Turkey, Poland counteracted its significance with the construction of the Stronghold of the Holy Trinity and return of the town of Bila Tserkva.

While Bulgaria had declared a ' symbolic ' war on the distant United Kingdom and the United States, at that meeting Boris once again refused to get involved in the war against the Soviet Union, giving two major reasons for his unwillingness to send troops to Russia — first, that many ordinary Bulgarians had strong Russophile sentiments ; and second, that the political and military position of Turkey remained unclear.

By 1923 whatever Greek population remained was expelled in the population exchange between Greece and Turkey and shortly after the Turkish population moved to a more favorable location, which they called Güllü Bahçe, " rose garden ", the old Greek settlement partly still in use, today with the name Gelebeç or Kelebeş.

The throne therefore remained vacant and, with the war with Turkey dragging on, the legislative elections of 1920 turned into an open conflict between the Venizelists and the supporters of the ex-King Constantine I.

In 1785 he was invited to Padua University, but to retain his services his sovereign doubled his salary and allowed him leave of absence for a visit to Turkey where he remained nearly a year and made many observations, among which may be noted those of a copper mine in Chalki and of an iron mine at Principi.

Esarhaddon remained crown prince, but was forced into exile at an unknown place beyond Hanilgalbat ( Mitanni ), that is, beyond the Euphrates, most likely somewhere in what is now southeastern Turkey.

Production continued in Argentina until 1984, where a fastback coupé version remained in the line-up right until the end ( while in Germany the coupé was dropped after the 1975 facelift ), and at Otosan in Turkey, where a restyled version of the last model continued in production until 1994.

With the loss of the ports of Alexandretta and Antioch to Turkey in 1939, Latakia became the main port in Syria, and there remained no alternative but to develop its port facilities.

Greece and Turkey remained the focus of Ramsay's research for the remainder of his academic career.

When Gurdjieff and Ouspensky moved on to Europe, Bennett remained in Turkey, committed to his work and fascinated by the political and social developments that finally led to the fall of the sultanate and the proclamation, on October 29, 1923 of the Turkish republic.

Galați township remained Moldova's only port, not only for domestic trade but also for trade with Turkey and Poland.

In 360, I Parthica unsuccessfully defended its camp against a Sassanid attack ; after the defeat, the legion was moved to Nisibis ( modern Turkey ), where it remained until the city was surrendered to the Sassanid Persians in 363.

He was not successful, and Turkey has remained as an occupying power ever since, with the situation continuing to be unresolved.

While the Astra F finished production in Germany in 1998, Polish-built Astras remained on offer in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Turkey, with the name Astra Classic from 1998 to 2002.

In the early 20th century, small Karaite communities remained in Egypt, Turkey, the Crimea, and Lithuania.

The remainder of the division remained in Palestine until the end of the war with Turkey on 31 October 1918.

During World War II, through February 1945, when Turkey was neutral for most of the length of the conflict, the Dardanelles were closed to the ships of the belligerent nations.

Turkey, as a neutral country during the Second World War, was a place where both the Axis and Allied powers sought to set up networks of spies.

At the time, other western allies in the Middle East, including Turkey and Iraq, were irritated that Egypt, a persistently neutral country, was being offered so much aid.

During World War II, Turkey remained neutral until February 1945.

Cicero's role in Turkey, another neutral country with some pro-German members of the government and armed forces, appears to fit into the Double Cross strategy, with many of the same patterns.

But no ships have been sighted, and the various attempts to contact the Allies or to seek the diplomatic intercession of the United States, still a neutral power, or Turkey ’ s ally, Imperial Germany, come to naught.

It has also been suggested the British strategy was to create a barrier in Greece, to protect Turkey, the only ( neutral ) country standing between an Axis block in the Balkans and the oil-rich Middle East.

In addition, IPC attempted, though without success, to extend further its area of operations by seeking concessions or exploration permits in Turkey and in the neutral zones of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

It is likely that Turkey, neutral until 23 February 1945, when it declared war on Nazi Germany, did not allow for war supplies to pass through into the Black Sea until that date.

In the face of the overwhelming German advance into Greece, several thousand Greek officers and soldiers were either evacuated, along with the Greek government, to Crete and then Egypt, in April – May 1941, or managed to flee, mainly via neutral Turkey, to the British-controlled Middle East.

The Republic of Turkey is neutral in religious affairs.

This name is mostly used for males in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir, India, Turkey, Iran, and other Asian countries of the region, though the name is neutral in gender and can also be used for females.

Losses included 44 to air defenses and additional B-24s that ditched in the Mediterranean or were interned ( e. g. a few landed in the neutral country Turkey ).

The most recent arrival of Balkan Turks took place in the 1940s until the 1990s, when the communist regime in Bulgaria expelled approximately 150, 000 Bulgarian Turks to Turkey.

He toured with his band Les Mistigris ( not related to Mistigris ) in Germany, Belgium, France and Turkey until 1967.

" 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.

He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia ( present day Pamukkale, Turkey ), and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.

Further heads, no longer available, were once held by the Knights Templar at Amiens Cathedral in France ( brought home by Wallon de Sarton from the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople ), at Antioch in Turkey ( fate uncertain ), and the parish church at Tenterden in Kent, where it was preserved up until the Reformation.

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.

The Empire lasted until the end of the First World War, when it was defeated by the Allies and was succeeded by the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923.

However, problems in foreign policy such as the Cyprus conflict and the internal political turbulence from the 1970s until the early 1980s forced Turkey to delay applying for full membership of the European Community until 1987.

After the 1980 Turkish coup d ' état until 1991 the use of the Kurdish language was illegal in Turkey.

The first, from an 1870 publication, is " Best Turkey opium 1 oz., slice, and pour upon it boiling water 1 gill, and work it in a bowl or mortar until it is dissolved ; then pour it into the bottle, and with alcohol of 70 percent proof 1 / 2 pt., rinse the dish, adding the alcohol to the preparation, shaking well, and in 24 hours it will be ready for us.

Domesticated rye occurs in small quantities at a number of Neolithic sites in Turkey, such as PPNB Can Hasan III, but is otherwise virtually absent from the archaeological record until the Bronze Age of central Europe, c. 1800-1500 BC.

This rule was used in Turkey and Russia until the 18th Century.

The very first written definition / discussion of volcanisim ( Effusive eruption ) observed at Katakekaumenē ( modern Kula, Western Turkey ) until Pliny the Younger witnessed to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 ADPompeii

The Istanbul pride of 2011 is considered as the biggest of Turkey until now, with more than 10, 000 participants.

Hattic was spoken in Anatolia ( Turkey ), in the area around ancient Hattusa ( modern Boğazköy ), until about 1800 BC, when it was replaced by the Indo-European Hittite language.

Likewise, the rumblings of Typhon emitted from deepest Tartarus could be clearly heard within the underground torrent near Seleuceia, now in Turkey, until his presence was neutralized by the building of a Byzantine church nearby.

He was a member of the Kurdish Democratic Society Party until the Constitutional Court of Turkey banned that party on 11 December 2009 for alleged ties to the Kurdistan Workers ' Party, banning him and 36 other members of that now-disbanded political party from joining any political party for five years.

Even afterwards, backtracking and disagreements continued, until British Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, was moved to comment in 1851 that " the boundary line between Turkey and Persia can never be finally settled except by an arbitrary decision on the part of Great Britain and Russia ".