Turkey is situated where Europe and Asia meet. The area of the country is 780.000 sq. km. It is made up of European part (Thrace) and Asian part (Anatolia), seperated by the Bosphorus, the Marmara Sea and the Dardanelles. At its widest point, Turkey is 1565 km accross. The neighbour countries are Bulgaria and Greece at the west, Russian Federation at the north, Armenia and Georgia at the north east, İran at the east, Iraq and Syria at the south. The state is secular and a multyparty democrasy is exist. Economy is based on agriculture with a rapidly developping industry.