theBlack Sea, on the northeast byGeorgiaandArmenia, on the east byAzerbaijanandIran, on the southeast byIraqandSyria, on the southwest and west by the Mediterranean Sea and theAegean Sea, and on the northwest byGreeceandBulgaria. The capital isAnkara, and its largest city and seaport is...
Turkey is bordering water bodies on three sides of the country: the Black Sea to the North, the Sea of Marmara to the Northwest and the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea to the West and South. The capital city is Ankara but Istanbul is the largest city of the country and also the ...
Turkey's relations with China have been evolving in recent years with a changing Middle East in the background. Turkey's bilateral relations with China are important for the Middle East because Turkey is historically, culturally, economically, and socially part of this region, and also because ...
Turkey is bounded on the north by the Black Sea, on the northeast by Georgia and Armenia, on the east by Azerbaijan and Iran, on the southeast by Iraq and Syria, on the southwest and west by the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea, and on the northwest by Greece and Bulgaria. The ...
Geography Location Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria Geographic coordinates ...
GeographyTurkey Location: Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria ...
and west of Anatolia were under the influence of, respectively,Syriaand theBalkans. Much visible evidence of the earliest cultures of Anatolia may have been lost owing to the large rise in sea levels that followed the end of the last Ice Age (about 10,000 years ago) and todepositionof ...
(400 km) to the frontier withAzerbaijan, eventually reaching theCaspian Sea. The bulk of eastern Turkey, however, is drained by the Euphrates (Fırat) andTigris rivers, which flow south for some 780 miles (1,250 km) and 330 (530 km) miles, respectively, before enteringSyriaand then...