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two week guided tour of cappadocia and south eastern turkey

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One of the largest middle-income partners of the World bank group, Turkey has an expanding economy and is continuing to pursue its candidacy for full membership in the European Union, which remains Turkey’s largest economic partner. Joining NATO in 1952, Turkey has also ensured and fostered a close bilateral partnership with the United States.Under the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogen, Turkey is an increasingly assertive regional player at a time when several of its neighbors are locked in sometimes violent struggles for democracy. Erdogan’s tenure has faced its own significant challenges, with public demonstrations and civil unrest, beginning in May 2013, that have brought some of the nation’s most unsettling discord in decades.In November 3rd 2015  ISTANBUL — With a stunning landslide victory for his party in Sunday’s parliamentary election, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has revived his ambition to establish an executive system of government, with him at its head, only a few months after political analysts had pronounced that aim dead.The president was still licking his wounds from a drubbing in June elections that saw his Justice and Development party, or A.K.P., lose its majority in Parliament when he assured a crowd of supporters in August that he was still very much in charge, despite the constitutional limits on the powers of his office.

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A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit eastern Turkey on Sunday and killed more than 200 people.  The death toll is expected to rise as hundreds of people have been injured while others were trapped beneath the collapsed buildings.

Around 2000 personnel have been assigned on the ground to assist those who were injured.  The military is also assisting in the search and rescue operations of survivors beneath the rubbles and concrete slabs.

More than 50 buildings and apartments collapsed while some of the damaged houses are uninhabitable.  The poorly constructed houses have been blamed for many deaths during earthquakes.  The electricity and natural gas were also switched off in most areas of the city.  The massive quake has caused panic and fear among the people and most of them spent the nights in emergency shelters.

Turkey sits in fault lines and has always been hit by earthquakes. In 1999, two strong quakes rocked the northwest part of the country and left 20,000 dead.

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Above: Historical Turkish timeline, spanning from 330 AD to 2000. Sourced: Taylor, Caitlin. 2014.

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physical map

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a political map

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Main Product Groups Share in Machinery Export of Turkey

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Parliamentary democracy with free market economy

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The flag of Turkey (Turkish: Türk bayrağı, meaning"Turkish flag") is a red flag featuring a white star and crescent. The flag is often called al bayrak (the red flag) and referred to as al sancak (the red banner) in the Turkish national anthem.