Turkey

# Republic of Turkey | Türkiye Cumhuriyeti

## Republic of Türkiye

The flag of Turkey

Turkey is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is off the south coast. Most of the country's citizens were ethnic Turks while the Kurds made up the largest minority.

During the early 1980s, Turkey was healing from an economic crisis after recovering from political violence and a coup from Kenan Evren. Mass imprisonment took place in the next 2 years, and the economy slowly began to get better, although political violence still seemed to be somewhat prevalent in some areas. As things were seemingly beginning to improve, disaster struck. In 1983, all out nuclear war had suddenly erupted all around the world. Turkey was hit, but the current president, Ahmet Kenan Evren survived in a bunker, alongside several high ranking political and military members. Due to the bombings, Turkey's national power grid had been severed or shut down and thus the people had to fend for themselves.

With the remnants of the Turkish Government, martial law was instated and the military took control of the government. As they waited in bunkers for a while, they finally stepped out after the fallout dissipated. Immediately beginning humanitarian efforts, Turkey began sending aid to survivors as well as evacuating all surviving members from Ankara and any nearby areas. Soon after that, they established various "Civilian Compendiums" referred to as Barınaklar (lit. "Shelters"). Turkey also declared Ankara and İstanbul as danger zones, as both had lost all government control and were hazardous. Some even believed that Greek militias had started to march into İstanbul to take back what they called Constantinople.

The first Barınak was set up in İzmir in 1984, while the second Barınak was set up in Antalya in 1993. Turkey focused massively on agriculture and fishing to attempt to make way for more food. Due to the highly unstable nature of the area, only the west and southwestern parts of Turkey were in government control. After the 2 Barınaklar were built, smaller compendiums between the 2 cities, as well as several more smaller compendiums between those to serve as pitstops, thus connecting both cities in 1998.

Turkey continued to live on from there, but it never was able to grow as large, at least not for a good while. The East of Turkey had turned into a harsh, lawless wasteland with small militias and bandit groups ravaging anything that dared to be peaceful, only to then fight each other when there was nothing else to target. Due to this, de-facto Kurdish scraptown states began to form, although these were loosely connected with each other and prone to raiding by militant groups in the far east. In the more mountainous regions though, Turkish people began to settle in high areas, establishing their own strangely familiar yet different cultures within small societal groups near the mountains. Many turks had reverted back to nomadic lifestyles and older cultural practices such as the playing of traditional instruments and clothing, became more popular. As years passed, they became so divided from each other that the dialects of Turkish that they spoke were no longer even mutually intelligible, eventually developing into their own languages that are all referred to by the language group "Caucasian Turkic."