Once a sleepy fishing village, Marmaris has ballooned into one of the Aegean coast, if not Turkey.Little of its history remains as the town is now a modern development with tourism at its heart and soul. The population swells to a massive 200.000 in the summer with most hotels, restaurants, night clubs, shops catering to low cost package holidays

A German schoolteacher changed the modern history of Oriental rugs. Harald Bohmer, a chemistry professor, went to Turkey to teach in 1960, and while there he became interested in the dyes he found in Turkish rugs and kilims.

The world's first coins appeared around 600 B.C., jingling around in the pockets of the Lydians, a kingdom tied to ancient Greece and located in modern-day Turkey.

On Sunday, Turkey voted for the anti-secular populist party. Perhaps instead of reading this as a "clash of civilizations," we should read it as a "clash within civilizations," by asserting a Marxist analysis of Turkish history (and questioning the suppositions of today's ideological constellation).

For the first time in modern history, a graveyard for gladiators has been discovered in Ephesus, Turkey, the ancient capital of the Roman province of Asia.

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west, Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhichevan), and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea and Archipelago are to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. Separating Anatolia and Thrace are the Sea of Marmara and the Turkish Straits (the Bosporus and the Dardanelles), which are commonly reckoned to delineate the border between Asia and Europe, thereby making Turkey transcontinental.Because of its strategic location astride two continents, Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition. A powerful regional presence in the Eurasian landmass with strong cultural and economic influence in the area between the European Union in the west and Central Asia in the east, Russia in the north and the Middle East in the south, Turkey has come to acquire increasing strategic significance.Turkey, classified as a developed country by the CIA, is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. Since then, Turkey has become increasingly integrated with the West while continuing to foster relations with the Eastern world.