Description: Marine Vessel Power Plant from Turkey in Indonesia JAKARTA, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 08: Indonesian President Joko Widodo and officers inspect 120 megawatt Marine V
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Turkey ( i / ˈ t ɜːr k i / ; Turkish : Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije] ), officially the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ), is a parliamentary republic in Eurasia , largely located in Western Asia , with the smaller portion of Eastern Thrace in Southeast Europe . Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Syria and Iraq to the south; Iran , Armenia , and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; Georgia to the northeast; Bulgaria to the northwest; and Greece to the west. The Black Sea is to the
Turkey has been inhabited since the paleolithic age , including various ancient Anatolian civilizations, Aeolian , Dorian and Ionian Greeks , Thracians , Armenians , and Assyrians . After Alexander the Great 's conquest, the area was Hellenized , a process which continued under the Roman Empire and its transition into the Byzantine Empire . The Seljuk Turks began migrating into the area in the 11th century, starting the process of Turkification , which was greatly accelerated by the Seljuk victory over the