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The culture of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye kültürü) or the Turkish culture (Türk kültürü) includes both the national culture and local cultures. Currently, Turkey has various local cultures. Things such as music, folk dance, or kebap variety may be used to identify a local area. Turkey also has a national culture, such as national sports ...
By the 12th century, Europeans had begun to call the Anatolian region Turchia or Turkey, the land of the Turks. [154] The Turkish society in Anatolia was divided into urban, rural and nomadic populations; [155] other Turkoman (Turkmen) tribes who had arrived into Anatolia at the same time as the Seljuks kept their nomadic ways. [150]
The Turkish democracy was interrupted by military coups d'état in 1960, 1971 and 1980. [96] In 1984, the PKK began an insurgency against the Turkish government; the conflict, which has claimed over 40,000 lives, continues today. [97]
Turkish may refer to: Something related to Turkey. Turkish language. Turkish alphabet; Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey; Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire; The word that Iranian Azerbaijanis use for the Azerbaijani language
This is a list of notable Turkish people, or the Turks, (Turkish: Türkler), who are an ethnic group primarily living in the republic of Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities have been established. They include people of Turkish descent born in other countries whose roots are in those countries.
Turkish art (Turkish: Türk sanatı) refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical area of what is present day Turkey since the arrival of the Turks in the Middle Ages. [ citation needed ] Turkey also was the home of much significant art produced by earlier cultures, including the Hittites , Ancient Greeks , and Byzantines .
1993: In 1993, the Turkish Culture and Arts Joint Administration was established in Almaty, which provides cooperation in the fields of culture and arts of Turkic Speaking Countries. 1993: The first Turkic Congress, which was a cultural, economic and political forum and was attended by all Turkic states and communities and related communities.
Turkey remained neutral during most of World War II, but was involved in the Korean War. Several military interventions interfered with the transition to a multi-party system. Turkey is an upper-middle-income and emerging country; its economy is the world's 17th-largest by nominal and 12th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP.