Turkey borders with 14 states. A unitary state with Ankara as its capital. The official language is Turkish. Modern Turkey was formed in 1923 as a result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in World War I and the subsequent national liberation war of the Turkish people, the abolition of the monarchy and the creation of a Turkish national state on the territory of eastern Thrace, Asia Minor and the Armenian Highlands. Before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire, this regio