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Türkiye (formerly known as Turkey), is a country geographically located in western Asia and eastern Europe.

The country's name change was approved on June 2, 2022, under the name Türkiye, as called by the United Nations.

The country borders Bulgaria to the north west, Greece to the west, Iraq and Syria to the south east, Georgia, Armenia and Iran to the east. Türkiye share a small border with Azerbaijan's exclave.

COVID-19[]

Türkiye had more than 800,000 new infections on December 10 that saw the country's cases rise from 924,000 to 1.724 million cases. Some of the 800,000 new Turkish COVID-19 cases were had mild symptoms of the virus.

Music[]

Just a year after finishing 3rd at the 2002 World Cup, Türkiye won the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Every Way That I Can" with Sertab Erener representing the country. Türkiye have not participated at the Eurovision Song Contest since 2012. Türkiye quit Eurovision after Conchita Wurst's win in 2014.

Sport[]

Türkiye is a UEFA member. Türkiye's team qualified for the 1954 FIFA World Cup, but failed to qualify for every World Cup from 1958 to 1998; and didn't even qualify until 2002, where they finished third; ahead of co-hosts Korea Republic and Japan. Turkiye also made the semifinals of Euro 2008, but failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.

The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers saw Türkiye return to form by qualifying as the best third placed team; and finishing third in qualification behind Iceland and the Czech Republic and ahead of the Netherlands, who declined at the time. The Türkiye national team then qualified again by the qualifying process to UEFA Euro 2021.

Türkiye has successes in the women's sport, such as women's basketball and volleyball.

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