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Turkey
a country which is mainly in west Asia but partly in southeast Europe, between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Population: 68,109,469 (2003). Capital: Ankara. Until the early 20th century, Turkey was the centre of the large Ottoman Empire, whose capital city was Istanbul, Turkey's largest city.
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