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Capital: ankara
Country name
: conventional long form: republic of turkey conventional short form: turkey local long form: turkiye cumhuriyeti local short form: turkiye
National holiday: republic day. 29 october (1923)
Government type
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republican parliamentary democracy
Administrative divisions: 81 provinces (iller. singular - il); adana. adiyaman. afyonkarahisar. agri. aksaray. amasya. ankara. antalya. ardahan. artvin. aydin. balikesir. bartin. batman. bayburt. bilecik. bingol. bitlis. bolu. burdur. bursa. canakkale. cankiri. corum. denizli. diyarbakir. duzce. edirne. elazig. erzincan. erzurum. eskisehir. gaziantep. giresun. gumushane. hakkari. hatay. igdir. isparta. istanbul. izmir. kahramanmaras. karabuk. karaman. kars. kastamonu. kayseri. kilis. kirikkale. kirklareli. kirsehir. kocaeli. konya. kutahya. malatya. manisa. mardin. mersin. mugla. mus. nevsehir. nigde. ordu. osmaniye. rize. sakarya. samsun. sanliurfa. siirt. sinop. sirnak. sivas. tekirdag. tokat. trabzon. tunceli. usak. van. yalova. yozgat. zonguldak |
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Independence:
29 october 1923 (successor state to the ottoman empire)
Political parties and leaders: anavatan partisi (once was motherland party) or anavatan [erkan mumcu]; democratic left party or dsp [mehmet zeki sezer]; democratic people's party or dehap [tuncer bakirhan]; felicity party (sometimes translated as contentment party) or sp [necmettin erbakan]; justice and development party or akp [recep tayyip erdogan]; liberal democratic party or ldp [emin sirin]; nationalist action party or mhp [devlet bahceli]; people's rise party (halkin yukselisi partisi) or hyp [yasr nuri ozturk]; republican people's party or chp [deniz baykal]; social democratic people's party or shp [murat karayalcin]; true path party (sometimes translated as correct way party) or dyp [mehmet agar] note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant of the 49 parties that turkey had on 1 december 2004
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
confederation of public sector unions or kesk [sami evren]; confederation of revolutionary workers unions or disk [suleyman celebi]; independent industrialists' and businessmen's association or musiad [omer bolat]; moral rights workers union or hak-is [salim uslu]; turkish industrialists' and businessmen's association or tusiad [omer sabanci]; turkish confederation of employers' unions or tisk [refik baydur]; turkish confederation of labor or turk-is [salih kilic]; turkish confederation of tradesmen and craftsmen or tesk [dervis gunday]; turkish union of chambers of commerce and commodity exchanges or tobb [m. rifat hisarciklioglu]
International organization participation
: asdb. australia group. bis. bsec. ce. cern (observer). eapc. ebrd. eco. eu (applicant). fao. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icftu. icrm. ida. idb. iea. ifad. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom. iso. itu. miga. nato. nea. nsg. oas (observer). oecd. oic. opcw. osce. pca. un. unctad. unesco. unhcr. unido. unmis. unomig. unrwa. upu. wco. weu (associate). wftu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto. zc
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