Modern Turkey has a mixture of races. Turks,
Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Kurds ___1___
Armenians live there. This is a legacy of the Ottoman Empire ___2___
lasted more than six centuries. The 'Father' of modern Turkey,
Mustafa Kamal Attaturk ___3___
a war of independence against the powers which occupied his
country after World War 1. ___4___
tried to form ___5___
Western country from the mixture of races and cultures. The
reforms he ___6___ ranged
from writing Turkish in the Latin alphabet to safeguarding the
rights ___7___ women. He
curbed Islamic fundamentalism. ___8___
Attaturk founded the nation, about 80% of the people lived by
working the land. Today 60% of the population live in urban
areas. Turkey wants to be a power in the region. It has formed
economic alliances ___9___
the countries bordering ___10___
Black Sea. |