Turkey
Turkey is an eurasian country. The capital is Ankara. The population is 71 millions. Turkey is a parliament and constitutional republic. It is a democratic state. The National Assembly is composed by 1000 deputies. They are chosen every five years by all turkish person over eighteen years. the prime minister and the president work together dividing the functions. The parliment choose the president. Turkey is not a memeber from the European Union.
The economy of Turkey has been money changer, thats because a lot of changes that the goverment has made to improve the economy but that produced a recession and financial crisis. But now the foreigner investment has grown up a lot and the country is having a strong and great economic growth.
Tukey has five official languages that are turkish, french, english, german and spanish.
The 75 porcent of the people is muslim the other 25 porcent is catholic.
The culture is composed with several elements from different cultures like Oguz Turkic, Anatolian, Ottoman (it´s a combination between Greco-Roman and islamic cultures) and western culture. The music and literature is a mix of the influence produced by the Ottoman Empire and the islamic worlds along with Europe.
The most popular sport is the rugby. The soccer is the second one in the list with really good teams just like Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Besiktas. The Galatasaray put the country in a privileged position when it won the UEFA Cup and the Supercup. Two years later the national team reached the third place in the FIFA World cup. The motor sports are now more popular than ever thats because of the Turkish Grand prix and Rally of Turkey. There are MotoGP, GP2 Series and the Le Mans Series.
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