Turkey (country)

Turkey
Type:	Country
Location:	West Asia, east Europe
First appearance:	The Giant Seed
Appearances:	see list

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Turkey was a country in west Asia and east Europe.

Geography

The city of Istanbul was in Turkey. (PROSE: Shadowmind ^[+]Loading...["Shadowmind (novel)"]) Turkey had access to Mediterranean Sea. (PROSE: The Stone House ^[+]Loading...["The Stone House (novel)"])

The Eastern Roman Empire was located where Turkey later was. (PROSE: Shadowmind ^[+]Loading...["Shadowmind (novel)"]) The city of Byzantium (later named Constantinople, then Istanbul) marked the gateway between Europe and Asia. (PROSE: Byzantium! ^[+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])

A road connected the Turkish provincial capital of Agri to Tabriz, the provincial capital of Iran. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps ^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"])

History

Early history

Troy was a legendary city of northwestern Anatolia (PROSE: The Universal Databank ^[+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"]) in what would become Turkey (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"]) and the site of the Trojan War, fought between the Greeks and Trojans (TV: The Myth Makers ^[+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (TV story)"]) circa 1200 BC. (AUDIO: The Phoenicians ^[+]Loading...["The Phoenicians (audio story)"])

In the 1st century, the city of Byzantium was located in Thrace, but this region would later become a part of Turkey. During this time, the region was more heavily influenced by the Greeks and Macedonians, while remaining under the rule of the Roman Empire. (PROSE: Byzantium! ^[+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])

19th century

Ace considered the Ottoman Empire, an Empire present at least in the 19th century, to be synonymous with Turkey. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari ^[+]Loading...["The Angel of Scutari (audio story)"])

During the 19th century, Theodore Maxtible travelled to European Turkey to learn more about the area, following preliminary talks of his financing a railway line through the Bosphorus region. There, Maxtible met mute Turk Kemel when his coach was repaired in the Tekir Dag mountains. Maxtible offered Kemel employment back in the United Kingdom. (PROSE: The Evil of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)"])

20th century

Turkey did not get involved in World War II. However, they also operated agents in occupied territories. One of their male agents in Paris in a misguided attempt to blend in adopted the alias Chanel Parfum. (PROSE: The Turing Test ^[+]Loading...["The Turing Test (novel)"])

21st century

In 2003, Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane went to Turkey on separate archaeological expeditions to find Noah's Ark. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps ^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"])

President Felix Mather and Anji Kapoor may once have flown over Eastern Turkey in a Concorde, but they couldn't be certain since they didn't have a working GPS device and their pilots refused to tell them where they were. (PROSE: Trading Futures ^[+]Loading...["Trading Futures (novel)"])

In 2007, Ace went to Turkey and, with the aid of Miss David, hired a group of Kurdish mercenaries to help her secure the barrel containing Vincent Wheaton. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead ^[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"])

In 2008, a call centre owned by Ephraim Salt was located in the city of Izmir in western Turkey. (AUDIO: Fall to Earth ^[+]Loading...["Fall to Earth (audio story)"])

In 2016, a camp for refugees from Syria was situated in Kahramanmaras, near the border with Syria. (PROSE: The Stone House ^[+]Loading...["The Stone House (novel)"])

References

Due to his rudimentary knowledge of Earth, Mr Copper thought that the people of the UK went to war with Turkey every Christmas, after which they would then eat the people of Turkey. (TV: Voyage of the Damned ^[+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"])