Turkey

Turkey is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Turkey is a regional power and a newly industrialized country,[28] with a geopolitically strategic location.

The geologic structure of Turkey where recent faulting and folding are widespread and mountain building is still in progress is particularly conducive to earthquakes, of which there have been many of varying intensity in modern times. Turkey’s varied climate generally a dry semi continental Mediterranean variant is heavily influenced by the presence of the sea to the north, south, and west and by the mountains that cover much of the country