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TUR Turkey 16th most visited country the Republic of Turkey; Türkiye

16th MOST VISITED

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Visitor Statistics for Turkey

10427 Members Visited Turkey taver (07 May 2013)   martinhouse (27 Apr 2013)   danan046 (07 Apr 2013)   MartinFischer (02 Apr 2013)   laggy (08 Mar 2013)   ozmarc (28 Feb 2013)   aris (22 Feb 2013)   ozmarc (17 Feb 2013)   traveler57 (02 Feb 2013)   wm_boulware (01 Feb 2013)   26 Members in Turkey owilybug (İstanbul)   Routex (Bursa)   Joff (İstanbul)   hb27tr (Gaziantep)   kmachin (İzmit)   lorsense (Istanbul)   erenguner (Istanbul)   chris23 (İzmir)   senorbrx (Istanbul)   necla (Istamboul)   251 Members from Turkey kelseycaryemanaff   dryncPraree   marinesmithrbppy   altonpeekkmxeiipl   ganiintarrift   heseFoveare   lucyznaoqvzbcgnidb   emambunnyWece   judith78iigaotovv   plopriatt   11 Places in Turkey with Members İstanbul (12 members) İzmir (3 members) Eskişehir (2 members) Bursa (2 members) Antalya (1 member) Kocaeli (1 member) Ankara (1 member) Dedemköy (1 member) Samsun (1 member) Kemer (1 member) Countries visited by members from Turkey Germany (59 visitors) France (51 visitors) Netherlands (47 visitors) United States of America (45 visitors) Italy (43 visitors) Spain (41 visitors) United Kingdom (41 visitors) Turkey (36 visitors) Greece (36 visitors) Austria (34 visitors)

Travel Information for Turkey

	Travel Advice for Turkey Link to travel advice for Turkey from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
	Travel Health Information for Turkey Link to travel health information for Turkey from NHS Scoltand.
	Entry Requirements for Turkey Link to entry requirements for Turkey for British Citizens from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. If you are not a British Citizen, you should check with the appropriate embassy or diplomatic mission.

About Turkey

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. 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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