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Turkey's borders as determined by the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. At the start of the 20th century the entire border region was part of the Ottoman Empire.During the First World War, an Arab Revolt (supported by the British) successfully ousted the Ottomans from Syria and Mesopotamia, however Britain and France had secretly agreed to partition the area between them in 1916 via the Sykes–Picot ...
Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller 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.
Turkey, surrounded by water on three sides, has well-defined natural borders with its eight neighbors. [ 3 ] Turkey ’s frontiers with Greece —206 kilometers—and Bulgaria —240 kilometers— were settled [ 7 ] by the Treaty of Constantinople (1913) and later confirmed [ 7 ] by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
Pages in category "Borders of Turkey" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Armenia–Turkey border;
At the start of the 2020 Greek–Turkish border crisis in late February 2020, migrants started to gather at the Greek-Turkish land border after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that he would no longer "block" refugees and migrants' "access to the border", and opened the border with Greece. [11] [12] Turkey's government was also ...
[3] [7] The border was then demarcated on the ground in 1927. [3] Generally cordial, relations between Iraq and Turkey became strained following the Gulf War (1990–91); this resulted in an autonomous Kurdish area being established in northern Iraq which provided sanctuary for Kurdish guerrillas operating in the south-east Turkey. [8]
Bulgaria–Turkey border; Turkey–Greece border barrier This page was last edited on 11 ...
The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions (Turkish: bölge), which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941. [1] The regions are subdivided into 31 sections (Turkish: bölüm), which are further divided into numerous areas (Turkish: yöre), as defined by microclimates and bounded by local geographic formations.