Official Name: Republic of Turkey
Capital: Ankara
Total area: 783 562 km2
GDP per capita: $17,651
Native Language: Turkish
Government: Unitary parliamentary republic
Population: 75,627,384
Major Religion: Islam
Monetary Unit: Turkish lira (TRY)

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located primarily on Anatolia in Western Asia and Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: Bulgaria in the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia in the Northeast; Armenia, Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea is to the south; the Aegean lies to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of ​​Marmara, the Bosphorus, and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) mark the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia. Turkey’s location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia makes it a country of significant geostrategic importance.

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Turkey has the world’s 15th largest GDP PPP and 17th largest nominal GDP. The country is one of the founding members of the OECD and the major economies of the G-20. During the first six decades of the republic, between 1923 and 1983, Turkey largely adhered to a quasi-state approach with strict state budget planning and state-imposed restrictions on private sector involvement, foreign trade, foreign exchange flows, etc. Foreign direct investment. In 1983, however, Prime Minister Turgut Özal initiated a series of reforms aimed at shifting the economy from a statist, isolated system to a more private-sector, market-based model.