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Capital:
Ankara
Type of
government: Republican parliamentary democracy
GDP
(purchasing power parity): $508.7 billion
Population:
60,660,599 (July ’05)
Natural
Resources: Coal, iron ore,
copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite
(strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite,
pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower
Languages:
Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek
Climate:
Temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior
Land
Use: arable land: 30.93%
permanent crops: 3.31%
other:
65.76%
Terrain:
high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain
ranges
Natural
Hazards: very severe
earthquakes, especially in northern Turkey, along an arc extending from the
Sea of Marmara to Lake Van
Religions:
Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews)
Independence
Day: October 29, 1923
National
Holiday: Republic Day,
October 29
Constitution:
November 7, 1982
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