Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and Cyprus to the south; and Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city; Istanbul is its largest city, and its economic and financial center, as well as the largest city in Europe.
==History==
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Turkey sided with the Western Bloc instead of the Soviet and China supported Eastern Bloc; this policy has led Turkey to become member of NATO on 18 February 1952 (alongside Greece), and since then, NATO has been the cornerstone of Turkey's defense and security policy.
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