"I recall with pleasant memories of my own visits to Turkey, in 1983 and 1994 and once again in 1997 to attend the first D-8 Summit in Istanbul. Personally, I have sailed along the beautiful coast of Turkey, in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. Turkey is certainly blessed not only with a rich cultural heritage, but magnificent and breathtaking landscape and scenery. Anatolia is truly a cradle of civilisation."
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, (13 June 2003)
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Turkey (Turkish: TĂĽrkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey and TĂĽrkiye, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwestern Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. The modern Republic of Turkey was formed by Mustafa Kemal AtatĂĽrk during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. It is a foundi
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