About Turkey

Turkey is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions in the world due to its location at the intersection of Asia and Europe. Settlements dating back to the neolithic era have been discovered there; and of course, Turkey is the home to the settlement of Troy, Alexander the Great, and the Ottoman and Byzantine Empires.

On November 1, 1922, the newly-formed parliament formally abolished the Sultanate, thus ending 623 years of Ottoman rule. The Treaty of Lausanne of July 24, 1923, led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the newly formed "Republic of Turkey" as the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, and the republic was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923, in the new capital of Ankara.