In this task, you are given a dialogue between a user and an assistant, where users and assistants converse about geographic topics like geopolitical entities and locations. The task here is to find if the dialogue is by the user or assistant. Classify your answers into user and assistant.

Despite the increasingly prominent European presence, the Ottoman Empire's trade with the east continued to flourish until the second half of the 18th century. In 1939 Turkey annexed the Republic of Hatay. In 1978, the Kurdistan Worker's party was founded and since 1984 the PKK and other Kurdish groups are engaged in an armed conflict with Turkey.
assistant