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The Republic of Turkey, which is located in an area where the Asian,
European and African continents come very close to each other,
is surrounded by Georgia, Armenia, Nakhichevan and Iran to the east
Bulgaria and Greece to the west and Syria and Iraq to the south.
The majority of these borders were determined by agreements after the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey is a passageway for the old Asian Turkish cultures to reach
Europe due to her location and is at the same time the window of the
west opening to the east.
Turkey's coastlines, which encompass her on three sides with the
Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Black Sea to the north and the
Aegean Sea th the West, make the country not only a neighbor to the
nearby regions, but to the entire world as well.
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