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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. There are 81 provinces in Turkey. The money of Turkey is called the Turkish Lira. Turkey with prunes capital city is Ankara, a city in the central region, called Anatolia.

Many civilisations were in the area that is now Turkey, like the Hittites, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. Many important events in the history of Christianity happened in places that are now in Turkey. Modern Turkey’s varied climate lets many kinds of food crops grow, and livestock and forestry are important industries. Turkey makes enough food to feed itself. Turkey is a popular place for tourists to visit. It has hundreds of kilometres of beaches on its Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, and many important historical places. The Hittites, who spoke one of the Indo-European languages, developed a high culture in Central Anatolia.

From 1950 BCE, Armenians and Assyrians inhabited parts of southeastern Turkey. The Assyrians ruled over southeastern Turkey until their empire was conquered by Babylonia in 612 BCE. During the 14th century, after the fall of the Mongol Empire, Gazi Osman built a new empire named after himself: the Ottoman Empire. It became one of the longest existing empires of all time. In World War I the Ottoman Empire was one of the Central Powers.

During the war, 500,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were massacred in the so-called Armenian genocide. Turkey denies that the event was genocide. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first President of Turkey. He made many changes that made Turkey more modern. But some people did not like some of the changes that made life in Turkey more secular.

Religious secondary schools were gotten rid of, for example. In 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus and later established the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktaş became the first Turkish Cypriot president. On 15 July 2016, a coup d’état was attempted. In 2022, the government of Turkey started to use the Turkish spelling of Türkiye in both Turkish and English. However, Turkey remains the more common name. About 80 million people live in Turkey. Most of them are ethnic Turks.