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Turkey adopted its official name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, known in English as the Republic of Turkey or more commonly known as Turkey, upon the declaration of the republic on 29 October 1923. In 2021, however, via the UN, Turkey changed its spelling to Türkiye. At a press briefing on 5 January 2023, a US State Department spokesperson announced that:
Turkey was neutral in World War II (1939–45) but signed a treaty with Britain in October 1939 that said Britain would defend Turkey if Germany attacked it. An invasion was threatened in 1941 but did not happen and Ankara refused German requests to allow troops to cross its borders into Syria or the USSR.
In December, COVID-19 cases in Turkey surpassed 1 million due to adding asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases that were previously not included in their official statistics. [87] In July 2022, the Turkish government asked the international community to recognise Turkey by its Turkish name Türkiye, preventing from confusion with Turkey (bird).
Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
“The historical literature about the Indian Confederation does not mention a chief named Turkey Foot and, finally, folks who are experts in Indian affairs say that Indians did not name their ...
The inclusion of "Turkey" in its name reflected an increasing trend of new ways Ottoman citizens thought of their country, and was the first time it was formally used as the name of the country. [122] On 23 April, the assembly, assuming full governmental powers, gathered for the first time, electing Mustafa Kemal its first Speaker and Prime ...
That little gold man bestowed as filmmaking's highest honor at the Academy Awards has a name. It's Oscar. Yes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing body for the glitzy ...
Both of those episodes, however, are from drama series while the turkey drop is comedy at its finest. Wired ranks "Turkeys Away" as its top holiday episode. "'WKRP in Cincinnati' might not be as ...