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Sherry Sun

Ms. Cipolla

CPW 4U1

June 06, 2016

World War I

1920 - Treaty of Sevres

Ottoman empire is greatly reduced, limited

only to a small part of Anatolia

1922 - Greek occupation ends

No foreign power remains in Turkey

October 23, 1923 - Republic of Turkey born

- Capital moved from Constantinople to Ankara

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is president

- End of 600 years old Ottoman Empire

1926 - Boundary with Iraq is

settled with help from League of

Nations

World War II

1945 - Turkey joins the

United Nations

1947 - Truman Doctrine

Large-scale military and economic

aid from United States of America

1949 - Turkey joined Council of Europe

An organization promoting human rights, democracy, economic development and certain regulatory functions

1952 - Turkey joins the North Atlantic

Treaty Organization (NATO)

1954 - American forces

allowed to station in

military facilities

1960 - Coup d'état

Turkish military officers overthrew the

elected democrat party

1961 - joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

An international economic organisation to stimulate world trade andeconomic progress

1967 - War with Greece over

Cyprus is narrowly avoided

1973 - Joined the Organization for

Security and Co-operation in Europe

(OSCE)

The world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization.

Armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups wanting to separate from Turkey to have autonomy.

1978 - PKK was founded

1984 - PKK announced Kurdish uprising and insurgency

1999 - PKK announced cease-fire

2004 - armed conflict resumed

2013 - Jailed leader of PKK, Abdullah Öcalan announced the end of armed struggle and a ceasefire

2015 - PKK cancelled their 2013 ceasefire

2016 - Bomb attack on military convoy inAnkara kills 38 people

1987 - First submitted application to

be part of European Union (EU)

1995 - Signed Custom Unions agreement

1999 - Received candidature for full membership

2011- present - Syrian Migrant Crisis

2015 - EU strikes deal (Turkey restricts flow of migrants into Europe, in return for €3 billion and concessions on stalled EU accession talks)

As of March 2016 : 2,748,367 registered refugees

2012 - Erdogan is elected as president

2016 - German parliament

declares the killing of Armenians

by Ottoman Turkish forces during

WW1 as genocide

Republic of Turkey

Political Timeline

20th - 21st Century

- of the -

2016

1900

1925

1950

1975

2000

Kurdish conflict

1945 - Enters WWII on Allied side

1930 - Constantinople becomes Instanbul

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