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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 ...
Geography of Turkey. / 39.000°N 35.000°E / 39.000; 35.000. The Anatolian side of Turkey is the largest portion in the country [ 1] that bridges southeastern Europe and west Asia. East Thrace, the European portion of Turkey comprises 3% [ 2] of the landmass but over 15% [ 2] of the population. East Thrace is separated from Asia Minor ...
Turkey remained neutral during most of World War II, [32] but was involved in the Korean War. Coups in 1960 and 1980 interrupted the transition to a multi-party system. [33] Turkey is an upper-middle-income and emerging country; its economy is the world's 18th-largest by nominal and 11th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP. It is a unitary presidential ...
Map of the Iraq–Turkey border. The Iraq–Turkey border (Kurdish: Sînorê Îraqê–Tirkiye, Arabic: الحدود العراقية التركية, romanized: alhudud aleiraqiat alturkia, Turkish: Irak–Türkiye sınırı) is 367 km (228 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Syria in the west to the tripoint with Iran in the east.
Map of the Iran-Turkey border by the United States Department of State. The border starts in the north at the tripoint with Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on the Aras river. The border then proceeds to the north-west along the Karasu Çayı river, thereby granting Turkey a sliver of territory linking it to Azerbaijan.
Greece Turkey. Length. 212 km (132 mi) [1] Greece–Turkey land border. The Greece–Turkey border ( Greek: Σύνορα Ελλάδας–Τουρκίας, romanized : Sýnora Elládas–Tourkías, Turkish: Türkiye–Yunanistan sınırı) is around 200 kilometres (120 mi) long, and separates Western Thrace in Greece from East Thrace in Turkey.
Turkey–Syria relations are the relations between Turkey and the Syrian Arab Republic. Turkey shares its longest common border with Syria; various geographic and historical links also tie the two neighbouring countries together. The traditionally tense relations between Turkey and Syria had been due to disputes including the self annexation of ...
The Tigris–Euphrates Basin is shared between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait. [6] [3] [4] [5] [7] Many tributaries of the Tigris river originate in Iran, and the Shatt al-Arab, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, makes up a portion of the Iran–Iraq border, with Kuwait's Bubiyan Island being part of its delta.