Tag: Turkey

20th century. The 1908 “young Turks” revolution unsuccessfully tried to contain the collapse of the Ottoman empire, which continued to suffer military and territorial losses in the Balkans. Taking advantage…

History The oldest evidence of human occupation in present-day Turkey occurs in a small area of ​​Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast. They are drawings of animals in caves, analogous to…

Economy In the 1930s, the state became one of the largest investors in the country’s industrialization. Much of the economic resources remained in the hands of the state for a…

Physical geography Located partly in Asia and partly in Europe, Turkey is the most westernized of all the countries that make up the Islamic world. Since the 1920s it has…