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THE EMPIRE STATES

TURKEY, IRAN, CYPRUS, AZERBAIJAN

IMPERIAL HERITAGE ARAB ETHNICITY GIVES WAY BUT

ISLAMIC CULTURE CONTINUES HIGH MOUNTAINS AND

PLATEAUS VS ROCKY AND SANDY DESERT

THE EMPIRE STATES

TURKEY TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE

NOMADIC PEOPLES FROM THE STEPPES AND FORESTS OF SIBERIA

6TH CENTURY- ESTABLISHED AN EMPIRE STRETCHING FROM MONGOLIA TO THE BLACK SEA

SPREAD THE TURKIC LANGUAGE FAR AND WIDE DECLINED IN EARLY 1900s

MUSTAFA KEMAL (ATATURK) FATHER OF MODERN TURKEY MOVED CAPITAL FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO

ANKARA WESTERNIZED TURKEY AND BROKE FREE FROM THE

ARAB WORLD

TURKEY(CONTINUED)

WESTERNIZATION ISLAM LOST OFFICIAL STATUS ROMAN ALPHABET REPLACED ARABIC ISLAMIC LAW REPLACED BY WESTERN CODE MONOGAMY BECAME LAW WOMEN GAINED RIGHTS TURKEY SEPARATED FROM ARAB WORLD

KURDISH POPULATION 14 MILLION- 1/5 OF TURKEY’S 70 MILLION SOUTHEAST TURKEY (IRAQ) - 3,000 BP;

RECENTLY-ISTANBUL ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM

CYPRUS POPULATION OF 900,000

PREDOMINANTLY GREEK SINCE ANCIENT TIMES

CONQUERED IN 1571 BY TURKS

1878- BRITISH TOOK CONTROL

AFTER WW II- INDEPENDENCE OR UNION WITH GREECE OR TURKEY?

1960- GRANTED INDEPENDENCE

1974- CIVIL WAR

1983- TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS SECEDED; 2 DE FACTO STATES EXIST

IRAN

A COUNTRY OF MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS

POPULATION OF 67 MILLION 66% URBANIZED NOMADISM OIL RESERVES 1980-1990 WAR WITH IRAQ CULTURAL TIES WITH IRAQ,

AZERBAIJAN, AFGHANISTAN

CHARACTERISTICS OF TURKESTAN

MOUNTAINS DESERTS OIL, COTTON PASTORALISM DIPLOMATIC REALIGNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Kazakhstan

Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

5 STATES OF THE FORMER USSR

ETHNIC DIVERSITY

AFGHANISTAN

BUFFER STATE TURBULENT HISTORY MUJAHEDEEN TALIBAN ERA OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

E. J. PALKA

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