[353], Istanbul Metro is the largest metro network in the country with 495 million annual ridership. [446], As of 2022, there are 209 universities in Turkey. [159] However, the official Chinese view, as documented in the white paper History and Development of Xinjiang, asserts that the Uyghur ethnic group formed after the collapse of the Uyghur Khaganate in 840, when the local residents of the Tarim Basin and its surrounding areas were merged with migrants from the khaganate. [167] A study published in 2021 suggests that the earliest Tarim Basin cultures appear to have high levels of Ancient North Eurasian ancestry, with smaller admixture from Northeast Asians. [79][80] The term "Chantou" (; Ch'an-t'ou, meaning "Rag head" or "Turban Head") was used to refer to the Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang,[81][82] including by Hui (Tungan) people. [459] Public-sector funding covers approximately 75.2% of health expenditures. Topkap Palace in Istanbul is one of the most famous examples of classical Ottoman architecture and was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years. [59][60] In Miletus, he is followed by two other significant pre-Socratic philosophers Anaximander (c. 610 BC c. 546 BC) and Anaximenes (c. 585 BC c. 525 BC) (known collectively, to modern scholars, as the Milesian school). It supported coalition forces in the First Gulf War, contributed military personnel to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and remains active in Kosovo Force, Eurocorps and EU Battlegroups. The authors also cite anthropologic studies which also estimate about 30% "Western proportions", which are in agreement with their genetic results. He turned the Second East Turkistan Republic into the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, and appointed Saifuddin Azizi as the region's first Communist Party governor. One early master by the pseudonym of ebek is mentioned posthumously in the earliest Ottoman text on the art known as the Tertib-i Risle-i Ebr, which is dated based on internal evidence to after 1615. These agencies are the General Directorate of Security, the Gendarmerie General Command and the Coast Guard Command. The country's tumultuous transition to multi-party democracy was interrupted by military coups d'tat in 1960 and 1980, as well as by military memorandums in 1971 and 1997. [72][162][163][164], Discovery of well-preserved Tarim mummies of a people European in appearance indicates the migration of a European-looking people into the Tarim area at the beginning of the Bronze Age around 1800 BC. A theatrical conservatoire, Darlbedayi-i Osmani (which became the nucleus of the Istanbul City Theatres) was established in 1914. In 2004, it was estimated that 46 percent of total disposable income was received by the top 20 percent of income earners, while the lowest 20 percent received only 6 percent. Turkey's extraordinary ecosystem and habitat diversity has produced considerable species diversity. [160] The name "Uyghur" reappeared after the Soviet Union took the 9th-century ethnonym from the Uyghur Khaganate, then reapplied it to all non-nomadic Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang. [213] This led the Soviets to capitalize on the Uyghur and other Turkic people's discontent in the region, culminating in their support of the Ili Rebellion in October 1944. ", "From Rep. of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs", "More than 20 ambassadors condemn China's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang", "China 'hopping mad' as 22 countries sign UN letter on Uighur Muslims", "22 countries signed an 'unprecedented' letter condemning China's oppression of Muslims. The official language is Turkish, which is the most widely spoken Turkic language in the world. [161] Turkey is also subdivided into 7 regions (blge) and 21 subregions for geographic, demographic and economic purposes; this does not refer to an administrative division. [33] Ibn Battuta, in the 1330s introduces the region as barr al-Turkiyya al-ma'ruf bi-bilad al-Rum ("the Turkish land known as the lands of Rum"). Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Namk Kemal also wrote the important 1876 novel ntibh (Awakening), while the journalist inasi has written, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy "air Evlenmesi" (The Poet's Marriage). Galatia was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia inhabited by the Celts. Apart from elections, referendums are also held occasionally. [148] Turkey applied for full membership of the EEC in 1987, joined the EU Customs Union in 1995 and started accession negotiations with the European Union in 2005. Several wild species of tulip are native to Anatolia, and the flower was first introduced to Western Europe with species taken from the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. [323] In 2020, according to Carbon Tracker, money was being wasted constructing more coal-fired power stations in Turkey. [77], In current usage, Uyghur refers to settled Turkic-speaking urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin and Ili who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia. Its architecture dramatically influenced the later medieval architecture throughout Europe and the Near East, and became the primary progenitor of the Renaissance and Ottoman architectural traditions that followed its collapse. The denials were based on security concerns, but critics claimed the bans were ideological. [175], The early Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities in Northeast Asia who moved westwards into Mongolia in the late 3rd millennium BC, where they adopted a pastoral lifestyle. The first Turkish musicals were also written in this period. In Northwest Turkey, the most significant tribal group in Thrace was the Odyrisians, founded by Teres I.[67]. [152] In August 2014, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's first direct presidential election. [305], Turkey is a newly industrialized country, with an upper-middle income economy, which is the twentieth-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and the eleventh-largest by PPP. Turkey is a global leader in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); the Bayraktar TB2, manufactured by private defence company Baykar, has been exported to over a dozen countries and played a decisive role in several conflicts, including the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[366][367]. The Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean was perceived as a threat to the Ottoman monopoly over the ancient trade routes between East Asia and Western Europe. [347][348][349] Turkish Airlines uses Istanbul Airport of 90 million capacity as its main hub. In 1514, Sultan Selim I (15121520) successfully expanded the empire's southern and eastern borders by defeating Shah Ismail I of the Safavid dynasty in the Battle of Chaldiran. The Asian part of the country mostly consists of the peninsula of Anatolia, which consists of a high central plateau with narrow coastal plains, between the Krolu and Pontic mountain ranges to the north and the Taurus Mountains to the south. [330] Some dances may alternate between singing and dancing, and Uyghur hand-drums called dap are commonly used as accompaniment for Uyghur dances. [455] Trkiye Scholarships is international scholarship programme funded by Government of Turkey. The empire, eventually spanning from Austria and Ukraine to Arabia and North Africa, used its land and water routes to import exotic ingredients from all over the world. These oases have historically existed as independent states or were controlled by many civilizations including China, the Mongols, the Tibetans and various Turkic polities. [citation needed], Carpet (hal) and tapestry (kilim) weaving is a traditional Turkish art form with roots in pre-Islamic times. The Uyghurs of Turfan and Hami such as Emin Khoja were allies of the Qing in this conflict, and these Uyghurs also helped the Qing rule the Altishahr Uyghurs in the Tarim Basin. [52] Starting from 714 BC, Urartu shared the same fate and dissolved in 590 BC,[53] when it was conquered by the Medes. According to Wu, she identified the women as Uyghurs based on what she said was their distinctive appearance and accent. However, many Uyghurs are also employed in the mining, manufacturing, cotton, and petrochemical industries. The Dzungar conquest of Altishahr ended the last independent Chagatai Khanate, the Yarkent Khanate, after the Aqtaghlik Afaq Khoja sought aid from the 5th Dalai Lama and his Dzungar Buddhist followers to help him in his struggle against the Qarataghlik Khojas. [151], In 2013, widespread protests erupted in many Turkish provinces, sparked by a plan to demolish Gezi Park but soon growing into general anti-government dissent. [332][333], Tourism in Turkey has increased almost every year in the 21st century,[334] and is an important part of the economy. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. Gshnan (, ) are pan-grilled lamb pies. [284], On 30 June 2021, a Han Chinese woman, Wu Huan, who was on the run to avoid extradition to China because her fianc was considered a Chinese dissident, said in an interview that China has a secret jail in Dubai. Even further east, there was an extension of the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict, in that the Ottomans also had to send soldiers to their farthest and easternmost vassal and territory, the Aceh Sultanate[106][107] in Southeast Asia, to defend it from European colonizers as well as the Latino invaders who had crossed from Latin America and had Christianized the formerly Muslim-dominated Philippines.[108]. [403][404] A 2016 survey by Ipsos, interviewing 17,180 adults across 22 countries, found that Islam was the dominant religion in Turkey, adhered to by 82% of the total population; religiously unaffiliated people comprised 13% of the population, while 2% were Christians. From the second half of the 18th century onwards, the Ottoman Empire began to decline. Turkey does not have a federal system, and the provinces are subordinate to the central government in Ankara. The analysis of the diversity of cytochrome B further suggests Uyghurs are closer to Chinese and Siberian populations than to various Caucasoid groups in West Asia or Europe. Opened in 2013, the Marmaray tunnel under the Bosphorus connects the railway and metro lines of Istanbul's European and Asian sides; while the nearby Eurasia Tunnel (2016) provides an undersea road connection for motor vehicles. Chinese authorities place the Uyghur population within the Xinjiang region to be just over 12 million, comprising approximately half of the total regional population. The Final of the 201314 EuroLeague Women basketball championship was played between two Turkish teams, Galatasaray and Fenerbahe, and won by Galatasaray. Judged by the number of its colonies Miletus was the most prolific of the Greek mother cities. The Uighurs are the people whom old Russian travelers called "Sart" (a name they used for sedentary, Turkish-speaking Central Asians in general), while Western travelers called them Turki, in recognition of their language. Saudi-born Uyghur Hamza Kashgari's family originated from Kashgar. [127] The Lausanne Convention stipulated a population exchange between Greece and Turkey, whereby 1.1million Greeks left Turkey for Greece in exchange for 380,000 Muslims transferred from Greece to Turkey. The independence and organisation of the courts, the security of the tenure of judges and public prosecutors, the profession of judges and prosecutors, the supervision of judges and public prosecutors, the military courts and their organisation, and the powers and duties of the high courts are regulated by the Turkish Constitution. The head painter, and much more often the scribe of the text, were indeed named and depicted in some of the manuscripts. The area governor, Sheng Shicai, came to power, adopting the Soviet ethnographic classification instead of the Kuomintang's and became the first to promulgate the official use of the term "Uyghur" to describe the Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang. Elections in Turkey are held for six functions of government: presidential elections (national), parliamentary elections (national), municipality mayors (local), district mayors (local), provincial or municipal council members (local) and muhtars (local). [13] Following Alexander's death in 323 BC, Anatolia was subsequently divided into a number of small Hellenistic kingdoms, all of which became part of the Roman Republic by the mid-1st century BC. It has vowel harmony like other Turkic languages and has noun and verb cases but lacks distinction of gender forms.[317]. The Uyghur language is an agglutinative language and has a subject-object-verb word order. Follow Jamaican news online for free and stay informed on what's happening in the Caribbean ", "Uyghurs outside China are traumatized. In general, Muslims in the southern region, Kashgar in particular, are more conservative. Under the leadership of Yaqub Beg, it included Kashgar, Yarkand, Khotan, Aksu, Kucha, Korla, and Turpan. [453], Turkey has become a hub for foreign students in recent years. [308][needs update] As of September2021[update], the foreign currency reserves of the Turkish Central Bank were $74.9 billion (an 8.1% increase compared to the previous month), its gold reserves were $38.5 billion (a 5.1% decrease compared to the previous month), while its official reserve assets stood at $121.3 billion. [355], The Bosphorus Bridge (1973), Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge (1988) and Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (2016) are the three suspension bridges connecting the European and Asian shores of the Bosphorus strait. ), Figurative Art in Medieval Islam, Michael Barry, p. 27. Also, the Uyghurs of Hunan do not speak the Uyghur language, instead, they speak Chinese[clarification needed] as their native language and Arabic for religious reasons at the mosque. [306] There is also a general split between the Uyghurs and the Hui Muslims in Xinjiang and they normally worship in different mosques. In 1931, the Kumul Rebellion erupted, leading to the establishment of an independent government in Khotan in 1932,[210] which later led to the creation of the First East Turkestan Republic, officially known as the Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan. Each category includes first instance courts and high courts. The Khojas however split into two rival factions, the Aqtaghlik Khojas (also called the Afaqiyya) and the Qarataghlik Khojas (the Ishaqiyya). [406][407] Another poll conducted by Gezici Aratrma in 2020 interviewed 1,062 people in 12 provinces and found that 28.5% of the Generation Z in Turkey identify as irreligious. [305] The Turkish Black Sea coast receives the most precipitation and is the only region of Turkey that receives high precipitation throughout the year. [483] Internationally acclaimed Turkish musicians of Western classical music include pianists dil Biret, Verda Erman, Glsin Onay, the Pekinel sisters (Gher and Sher Pekinel), Ayegl Sarca and Fazl Say; violinists Ayla Erduran and Suna Kan; opera singers Semiha Berksoy, Leyla Gencer and Gne Grle; and conductors Emre Arac, Grer Aykal, Erol Erdin, Rengim Gkmen and Hikmet imek. The Gendarmerie General Command and the Coast Guard Command are law enforcement agencies with military organization (ranks, structure, etc.) The instructions for several ebru techniques in the text are accredited to this master. 115-116. More than 40,000 people have died as a result of the conflict. In a survey conducted by Kadir Has University in Istanbul in 2016, 33% of respondents said that LGBT people should have equal rights, which increased to 45% in 2020. During the war, the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek and Assyrian subjects. [13][16] The Seljuk Turks began migrating in the 11th century, and the Sultanate of Rum ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, when it disintegrated into small Turkish principalities. The Hui are descendants of Arabs and Han Chinese who intermarried and they share the Islamic religion with the Uyghur in Hunan. The term "Uyghur" was not used to refer to a specific existing ethnicity in the 19th century: it referred to an 'ancient people'. [450], Turkey is a member of Socrates programme, Erasmus Programme and Erasmus+ Programmes. Several ecumenical councils of the early Church were held in cities located in present-day Turkey, including the First Council of Nicaea (Iznik) in 325, the First Council of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the Council of Chalcedon (Kadky) in 451. WebQuestia. discuss], the survivors seek refugee in Ottoman Empire. The local government's duties are commonly split between municipal governments and districts, in which executive and legislative officials are elected by a plurality vote of citizens by district. The city served as the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia. Despite this however, western music styles like pop music and kanto lost popularity to arabesque in the late 1970s and 1980s. The arrival of Islam in Central Asia and the development of Islamic art also influenced Turkic patterns in the medieval period. [283] The Arab nations were focused on the crucial economic ties they maintained with China, which is a primary consumer of Middle East oil and a crucial trading and investment partner for these countries. For though some of the more extravagance claims made in antiquity have not been substantiated by modern investigations, her colonies were by far more numerous than those of any other Greek cities., passages: 7.99, 8.6869, 8.8788, 8.93.2, 8.101103. [395] According to the UNHCR, in 2018 Turkey hosted 3,564,919 registered refugees from Africa and the Middle East in total, which corresponded to 63.4% of all refugees in the world. [176][177][178][179][180] By the early 1st millennium BC, these peoples had become equestrian nomads. 15,3%, 3797,0 . Turkey's first sound film was shown in 1931. [29] Its economy, which is classified among the emerging and growth-leading economies, is the twentieth-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and the eleventh-largest by PPP. [39][40], The Anatolian peninsula, comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest permanently settled regions in the world. [468] The miniatures were usually not signed, perhaps because of the rejection of individualism, but also because the works were not created entirely by one person; the head painter designed the composition of the scene, and his apprentices drew the contours (which were called tahrir) with black or coloured ink and then painted the miniature without creating an illusion of depth. [93][96][97][98] There, "Uyghur" was chosen by them as the name of their ethnicity, although delegates noted the modern groups referred to as "Uyghur" are distinct from the old Uyghur Khaganate. After World War II, Turkey operated under a multi-party system. In the treaty signed with Afghanistan, the expression Devlet-i Aliyye-i Trkiyye ("Sublime Turkish State") was used, likened to the Ottoman Empire's name. [270][271] In 2020, the CPJ identified 18 jailed journalists in Turkey (including the editorial staff of Cumhuriyet, Turkey's oldest newspaper still in circulation). [76] Before 1921/1934,[clarification needed] Western writers called the Turkic-speaking Muslims of the oases "Turki" and the Turkic Muslims who had migrated from the Tarim Basin to Ili, rmqi and Dzungaria in the northern portion of Xinjiang during the Qing dynasty were known as "Taranchi", meaning "farmer". [446] Access to high-quality school heavily depends on the performance in the secondary school entrance exams, to the point that some students begin taking private tutoring classes when they are ten years old. Why the United States Is Getting Tough With Turkey", "Turkey-EU-US Triangle in Perspective: Transformation or Continuity? In its wake, one of the Turkish principalities governed by Osman I would evolve over the next 200 years into the Ottoman Empire. [280][281] A poll by Ipsos in 2015 found that 27% of the Turkish public was in favour of legalizing same-sex marriage and 19% supported civil unions instead. [240] According to a 2020 report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, since 2017, Chinese authorities have destroyed or damaged 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang. Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome, by Daniela Dueck, p. 3. sfn error: no target: CITEREFCrossLivingstone2005 (. 2021/24 on the Use of the Term "Trkiye" as a Brand (in Turkish)", "Turkey to register its new name Trkiye to UN in coming weeks", "UN to use 'Trkiye' instead of 'Turkey' after Ankara's request", "Turkey changes its name in rebranding bid", "Search for the Indo-Europeans: Were Kurgan horsemen or Anatolian farmers responsible for creating and spreading the world's most far-flung language family? This alphabet is known as Kona Yziq (old script). Another group of Uyghur have the surname Sai. Uyghurs have local muqam systems named after the oasis towns of Xinjiang, such as Dolan, Ili, Kumul and Turpan. [194][195] The Truman Doctrine in 1947 enunciated American intentions to guarantee the security of Turkey and Greece during the Cold War, and resulted in large-scale U.S. military and economic support. In total, Uyghurs on average range from 44 to 64% Siberian/East Asian, 33.2% European, and 17.9% South Asian. Uyghurs joined with Uzbeks, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz and successfully declared their independence on 12 November 1933. The later "Group D" of artists led by Abidin Dino, Cemal Tollu, Fikret Mualla, Fahrnnisa Zeid, Bedri Rahmi Eybolu, Adnan oker and Burhan Doanay introduced some trends that had lasted in the West for more than three decades. The BakuTbilisiCeyhan pipeline forms part of Turkey's foreign policy strategy to become an energy conduit from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe. Uzbek composer Shakhida Shaimardanova uses themes from Uyghur folk music in her compositions.[327]. They are one of China's 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities. The transition from Seljuk architecture to Ottoman architecture is most visible in Bursa, which was the capital of the Ottoman State between 1335 and 1413. [139] The Annan Plan for reunifying the island was supported by the majority of Turkish Cypriots, but rejected by the majority of Greek Cypriots, in separate referendums in 2004. The First National Architectural Movement in the early 20th century sought to create a new architecture, which was based on motifs from Seljuk and Ottoman architecture. Turkey's migrant crisis in the 2010s and early 2020s resulted in the influx of millions of refugees and immigrants; by 2014, international migrants comprised 2.5% of the country's population. Italian architect, Raimondo D'Aronco served as the chief palace architect to the Ottoman Sultan Abdlhamid II in Istanbul for 16 years. On 26 June 1945, Turkey became a charter member of the United Nations. [385] Non-Kurdish minorities are believed to make up an estimated 712 percent of the population. Another common Uyghur dish is leghmen (, ), a noodle dish with a stir-fried topping (sy, from Chinese cai, ) usually made from mutton and vegetables, such as tomatoes, onions, green bell peppers, chili peppers and cabbage. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 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[232] Chinese officials are sometimes assigned to monitor the families of current inmates, and women have been detained due to actions by their sons or husbands. Asian Turkey, which includes 97 percent of the country's territory, is separated from European Turkey by the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles. Numerous Turkish playwrights emerged in this era; some of them wrote on romantic subjects, while others were interested in social problems, and still others dealt with nationalistic themes. The efforts of Midhat Pasha during the late Tanzimat era led the Ottoman constitutional movement of 1876, which introduced the First Constitutional Era, but these efforts proved to be inadequate in most fields, and failed to stop the dissolution of the empire. [445], Basic education in Turkey is said to lag behind other OECD countries, with significant differences between high and low performers. in, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "The Zen of Disengagement: Diogene of Sinope", "The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus: The Un-Greek Temple and Wonder", "Anatolia and the Caucasus (Asia Minor), 1000 B.C. [65][note 4] The name is currently used to refer to the settled Turkic urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, distinguishable from the nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia. [461], Average life expectancy is 78.6 years (75.9 for males and 81.3 for females), compared with the EU average of 81 years. [240], Turkey has participated in international missions under the United Nations and NATO since the Korean War, including peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Yugoslavia and the Horn of Africa. "[282], While China continued the brutality towards the Uyghur Muslims, citizens of the ethnic minority group began seeking asylum in other nations. After decades of political negotiations, Turkey applied for full membership of the EEC in 1987, became an associate member of the Western European Union in 1992, joined the EU Customs Union in 1995 and has been in formal accession negotiations with the EU since 2005. Uyghur identity remains fragmented, as some support a Pan-Islamic vision, exemplified by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, while others support a Pan-Turkic vision, such as the East Turkestan Liberation Organization. [100][101] The Qing dynasty and the Kuomintang generally referred to the sedentary oasis-dwelling Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang as "turban-headed Hui" to differentiate them from other predominantly Muslim ethnicities in China. [176] In subsequent centuries, the steppe populations of Central Asia appear to have been progressively Turkified by East Asian nomadic Turks, moving out of Mongolia.[181][182]. [303], Modern Uyghurs are primarily Muslim and they are the second-largest predominantly Muslim ethnicity in China after the Hui. Turkey is home to 519 Blue Flag beaches, which makes it in the third place in the world. Samsa (, ) are lamb pies baked in a special brick oven. [citation needed], In the years of government by the AKP and Erdoan, particularly since 2013, the independence and integrity of the Turkish judiciary has increasingly been said to be in doubt by institutions, parliamentarians and journalists both within and outside of Turkey; due to political interference in the promotion of judges and prosecutors, and in their pursuit of public duty. The Chief of the General Staff is appointed by the President. Sama is a form of group dance for Newruz (New Year) and other festivals. The first major empire in the area was founded by the Hittites, from the 18th through the 13th century BC. Local handicrafts like rug-weaving and jade-carving are also important to the cottage industry of the Uyghurs. The undersea pipeline, Turkish Stream, with an annual capacity around 63billion cubic metres (2,200billion cubic feet), allows Turkey to resell Russian gas to the rest of Europe. The Turkish government has refused to acknowledge the events as genocide and states that Armenians were only "relocated" from the eastern war zone. Turkey is divided into seven geographical regions: Marmara, Aegean, Black Sea, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia and the Mediterranean. Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. New perspectives on the politics of moderation in Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings", "Who are the Uighurs, and what's happening to them in China? [23][24], The term's original meaning is unclear. The Russians and other foreigners referred to them as "Sart",[77] "Turk" or "Turki". The Turkish War of Independence against the occupying Allied Powers resulted in the abolition of the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne (which superseded the Treaty of Svres) on 24 July 1923 and the proclamation of the Republic on 29 October 1923. [32] In the 14th-century Arab sources, turkiyya is usually contrasted with turkmaniyya (Turkomania), probably to be understood as Oghuz in a broad sense. [286] The country is encircled by seas on three sides: the Aegean Sea to the west, the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Cyprus is located off the south coast. "[177], Turkey is a founding member of the United Nations (1945),[181] the OECD (1961),[182] the OIC (1969),[183] the OSCE (1973),[184] the ECO (1985),[185] the BSEC (1992),[186] the D-8 (1997)[187] and the G20 (1999). From the 16th to the early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire also fought twelve wars with the Russian Tsardom and Empire. 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