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Background: Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the People's Congress of Kurdistan or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives, but after the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey, mainly to northern Iraq. In 2004, KGK announced an end to its ceasefire and attacks attributed to the KGK increased. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy, enabling it to begin accession membership talks with the European Union.



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24 days ago: Mylis published a blog
Easy Cruising
June 30th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Bodrum
So, we are back from our aegean cruise through the Greek islands! To highlight, we went to Mykonos, Kos, Syros, Paros, Kalymnos, and Bodrum in Turkey. It was a budget cruise put on by the budget ai ... [full story]

46 days ago: ten Kate Family published a blog
Daar zijn we weer!
June 9th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Bodrum
Eindelijk zitten we dan in ons eigen huisje!!! Foto's volgen nog. Met internet. Wat nogal wat voeten in de aarde heeft gehad. Maar goed heb van Erik-Jan en bernice (ex collega's) begrepen dat ik me ni ... [full story]

70 days ago: ten Kate Family published a blog
Een update vanuit Bodrum
May 16th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Bodrum
Hallo vrienden, Op de achtergrond klinkt de imam door de luidsprekers om iedereen een goede nachtrust toe te wensen. (of zoiets) Gelukkig is onze tijdelijke woning maar 50 meter verwijderd van de ... [full story]

Een groet vanuit Bodrum
76 days ago: ten Kate Family published a blog
Een groet vanuit Bodrum
May 10th 2008  Middle East » Turkey » Aegean » Bodrum
Daar zijn we weer! Leuk om jullie reacties te lezen! Het Autootje heeft ons vrijdag zonder enig probleem naar Bodrum gebracht. We leken inderdaad wel een echte Turkse familie. Want we hadden de a ... 4 photos [full story]


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