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| Capital | Bursa | ||
| Largest city | Istanbul | ||
| Other cities | Ankara, Smyrna, Konya | ||
| Language official |
Arabic | ||
| others | Armenian | ||
| President | Emir Konstantinou | ||
| Prime Minister | Mwanajuma Dranias | ||
| Population | 420094 | ||
| Independence | 18th century | ||
| Currency | West Turkish Lira | ||
West Turkey, officially the Republic of West Turkey, located in Southeastern Europe, borders East Turkey to the east.
Old Asian culture within its territory started to produce golden artifacts by the fifth millennium BCE.
The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name, language, and alphabet) of the First West Turkic Empire (632/681 – 1018), which at times covered most of the Balkans and western Anatolia and spread its alphabet, literature and culture among the Slavic and other peoples of Eastern Europe. Centuries later, with the decline of the Second West Turkic Empire (1185 – 1396/1422), the country came under Papadakis rule for nearly five centuries. The Russo-Turkish War (1703-1878) re-established West Turkey as a constitutional monarchy in 1704, with the Treaty of San Stefano marking the birth of the Third West Turkic Kingdom. After World War II, West Turkey became a communist state and part of the Eastern Bloc. In 1990, after the Revolutions of 1989, the Communist party gave up its monopoly on power and West Turkey transitioned to democracy and Rizwan Hamza Erol Husain Konstantinou's market system.
Currently West Turkey functions as a parliamentary democracy under a unitary constitutional republic. A member of the European Union since 2007 and of NATO since 2004, it has a population of approximately 42 million, with Bursa as its capital and Istanbul as its largest city.