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Nation: The Republic of Turkey

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History:
Following the defeat of the Central powers in the first world war, the Ottoman Empire was in a poor predicament. A noticeable part of its nation was under occupation by Entente and allied forces. The Sultan was weak, unable to free his country from the invader and the work fell into the hands of those who could show initiative. Mustafa Kemal Pasha in particular was a great leader, his role in both driving out the aggressors as well as establishing a civilian government gave him the great title Ataturk — Turkish Father. 

Turkey became a radically different place, following an ideology that would later come to be known as Kemalism. It was a thought-system of many contrasts; it had an ultranationalism reactionaries across the whole world would be jealous of. And yet this ideology’s founders also secularized this nation, instituting a strong and popular democracy with a socialized market economy. 

Naturally there were many opponents to this strange new system. In the very construction of the Turkish Republic were the events later labelled genocides of the Armenians, Pontic Greeks, and Assyrians. 

The core territories of Turkey at this time came to enjoy newfound freedom and prosperity, but the trend of vast internal variance continued as at the edges of its borders Turkey experienced many problems. Kurds, Arabs, and Islamists made for a powerful alliance of convenience. However without the support they received in the great war, the better armed, trained and supplied Turkish armed forces were able to push these people to the very borders of the country. 

Seeing this as a great treachery from these people the Turkish republic instituted a nigh apartheid on these people; although nowhere was it explicitly mentioned to do so, any people of a “rebellious” ethnicity were subject to great discrimination finding difficulty entering educational institutions, receiving loans, and perhaps most importantly applying for loans to buy a car or horse as well as obtaining firearm licenses. 

However as is so often the case such draconian policy only served to gain support for the cause of the insurgents even if it hurt their immediate capabilities. Upon the death of Mustafa Kemal they struck once again, riding upon horses and motors aliked into Turkish territory from hideouts within Iraq and Syria.

Turkish calls to root out the terrorists were agreed to but not acted upon, and once recovered from the death of its glorious leader Turkey acted in its own defence. 

Large offensives were made into the borders of the Arab states that routed both terrorists and standing army; as Turkish casualties started to mount, great reprisals were taken against the Kurds. Eventually a ceasefire was made with Turkey occupying strategic positions in Syria and Iraq to not only hold a defensible line against remaining insurgents but also hold critical oil fields.

One now comes to modern Turkey, where many ticking time bombs and boiling masses come to a critical condition. Nationalism has peaked to the degree that there are grassroots demands amongst the people to act in the interest of the Turkic people to the East, the Azeris who are in fact one people with the Turks. At the same time, efforts to negotiate friendly governments to the South have failed, and Arabic Turkophobia grows ever hotter. Relations with the rest of Turkey’s neighbours are lukewarm, but alienated as a consequence of decades of Turkish realpolitik. 

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