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by gokhan 3217 days ago
Please add Turkey.
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Turkey is not in europe.
Given that Turkey has the worlds most famous transcontinental city it does rather imply that Turkey itself is spread across more than one continent.
How so? Their CAPITAL, and decent chunk of territory are on the continent called Europe. a couple tens of millions citizens live there. Just counting those would put them in the first ten-ish most populous countries in Europe.
Did they move their capital? I thought Ankara was in Asia.
Good catch :) I'm so accustomed to Istanbul being the center of the Turkey's economy and former Ottoman power. However, that does not change the point. Istanbul and the European chunk of Turkey (+ Izmir and Aegean coast which was in "Byzantine" zone of influence) is a huge chunk of Turkey.
It's best to avoid the topic or we'll be encountering Scott and Daniel.
My employer (one of the big three) thinks otherwise :) My manager is in UK, for example.
We are in the history of every possible EU country :) How come we are not in EU ? :)