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Turkey Travel Blog

Turkey, a land full of many cultures, historical grounds, religion, great food, and many great people. Turkey is a country that welcomes visitors and is a great place to visit. I myself have traveled there and it was one of the best, exciting, and most remembering experiences of my life over the duration of my visit. I am going to show you the many different and great reasons to visit this fabulous country.

In 1928, the modern Turkey was founded out of the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire. Early Turkey began experimenting with multi party politics which led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition democratic party and a peaceful transfer of power.

But democracy has been disrupted by periods of instability and intermittent military coups, which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and has dominated the Turkeys military's attention. This issue between the PKK and Turkeys military has 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 2013, KGK and the Turkish Government agreed to a ceasefire that continues despite slow progress in ongoing peace talks.

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; it began accession membership talks with the European Union in 2005.