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2	THE EMPIRE STATES TURKEY, IRAN, CYPRUS, AZERBAIJAN IMPERIAL HERITAGE ARAB ETHNICITY GIVES WAY BUT ISLAMIC CULTURE CONTINUES HIGH MOUNTAINS AND PLATEAUS VS ROCKY AND SANDY DESERT
3	THE EMPIRE STATES
4	TURKEY TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE NOMADIC PEOPLES FROM THE STEPPES AND FORESTS OF SIBERIA 6TH CENTURY- ESTABLISHED AN EMPIRE STRETCHING FROM MONGOLIA TO THE BLACK SEA SPREAD THE TURKIC LANGUAGE FAR AND WIDE DECLINED IN EARLY 1900s MUSTAFA KEMAL (ATATURK) FATHER OF MODERN TURKEY MOVED CAPITAL FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO ANKARA WESTERNIZED TURKEY AND BROKE FREE FROM THE ARAB WORLD
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6	TURKEY(CONTINUED) WESTERNIZATION ISLAM LOST OFFICIAL STATUS ROMAN ALPHABET REPLACED ARABIC ISLAMIC LAW REPLACED BY WESTERN CODE MONOGAMY BECAME LAW WOMEN GAINED RIGHTS TURKEY SEPARATED FROM ARAB WORLD KURDISH POPULATION 14 MILLION- 1/5 OF TURKEY’S 70 MILLION SOUTHEAST TURKEY (IRAQ) - 3,000 BP; RECENTLY-ISTANBUL ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM
7	CYPRUS POPULATION OF 900,000 PREDOMINANTLY GREEK SINCE ANCIENT TIMES CONQUERED IN 1571 BY TURKS 1878- BRITISH TOOK CONTROL AFTER WW II- INDEPENDENCE OR UNION WITH GREECE OR TURKEY? 1960- GRANTED INDEPENDENCE 1974- CIVIL WAR 1983- TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS SECEDED; 2 DE FACTO STATES EXIST
8	IRAN A COUNTRY OF MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS POPULATION OF 67 MILLION 66% URBANIZED NOMADISM OIL RESERVES 1980-1990 WAR WITH IRAQ CULTURAL TIES WITH IRAQ, AZERBAIJAN, AFGHANISTAN
9	CHARACTERISTICS OF TURKESTAN MOUNTAINS DESERTS OIL, COTTON PASTORALISM DIPLOMATIC REALIGNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
10	5 STATES OF THE FORMER USSR
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12	AFGHANISTAN BUFFER STATE TURBULENT HISTORY MUJAHEDEEN TALIBAN ERA OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM
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