Middle East–N. Africa
Turkey
Capital: Ankara
- 86MPopulation
- 85MMuslim
- 99%Muslim share
- $13,100GDP per person
- 8.5%Unemployment
- 8%In poverty
- 97%Literacy
- 77Life expectancy
- System
- presidential republic
- In power
- President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
- Currency
- lira
- In the UN since
- 1,945
Life today
Drama serials exported to 150+ countries, a giant textile industry, football and volleyball mad.
Word on the street
Trendyol for shopping, WhatsApp for talk, drama serials for the whole region.
Names the world knows
- Orhan Pamuk Nobel novelist
- Aziz Sancar Nobel chemist
- Arda Güler young footballer
- Jalal al-Din Rumi poet of Konya
Did you know?
Turkey straddles two continents; Istanbul is Europe's largest city by population.