Turkey is located in the Middle East, officially called the Republic of Turkey. It is surrounded on the northern by the Black Sea, to the east by Georgia, to the east by Iran and Armenia, to the south by Iraq and Syria and by the White Sea Mediterranean Sea, and has maritime borders on the Aegean Sea from the western side, in addition to Cyprus, Bulgaria and Greece, and is a member State of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization. The presence of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits helps to make it strategically located and influential in the countries bordering the Black Sea. Free black.
Turkey is a secular and democratic state at the same time, in addition to being a republic with a special and limited constitution. It has its own ancient heritage. It has no official religion. The constitution gives its people freedom of religion and belief. However, most of its inhabitants are religious. Islam According to the latest statistics, about 99% of the total Muslim population, as well as Christian minorities and others.
Turkey's climate The coastal areas of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts are characterized by temperate climates, warm and dry in summer, cool and wet in winter, while on the Black Sea coasts, their climate is warm and humid at the same time during the summer, cool and humid During the winter, and the largest rainfall on the Black Sea coast, while for its areas overlooking the Sea of Marmara, including Istanbul, the climate in which the transition between the Mediterranean climate as well as climate And the snow falls heavily on the shores of the Aegean Sea, rarely on the shores of the Black Sea and Aegean Sea, while not falling at all on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Turkey is currently an integrated country because it has gained membership in most Western international organizations, notably the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, as well as the G20, the world's major economic countries. I became a member of the European socialist market and in 1995 I got an agreement in the customs union. In 2005, I started negotiations for a full European Union.
The Turkish state has a close relationship at the political, cultural, economic and industrial levels in the Middle East, all through its membership in the Joint Councils of Culture and Arts, in addition to the Organization for Economic and Islamic Cooperation. It can not be denied that its position is at the crossroads between The European and Asian continents have helped it a lot, and made them enjoy great military power.