_#_Language: Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic
_#_Literacy: 81% (male 90%, female 71%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
_#_Labor force: 18,800,000; agriculture 56%, services 30%, industry 14%; about 1,000,000 Turks work abroad (1987)
_#_Organized labor: 10-15% of labor force
_*Government #_Long-form name: Republic of Turkey
_#_Type: republican parliamentary democracy
_#_Capital: Ankara
_#_Administrative divisions: 73 provinces (iller, singular—il);
Adana, Adiyaman, Afyon, Agri, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya,
Artvin, Aydin, Balikesir, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingol, Bitlis,
Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Canakkale, Cankiri, Corum, Denizli,
Diyarbakir, Edirne, Elazig, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskisehir, Gaziantep,
Giresun, Gumushane, Hakkari, Hatay, Icel, Isparta,
Istanbul, Izmir, Kahraman Maras, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu,
Kayseri, Kirikkale, Kirklareli, Kirsehir, Kocaeli, Konya, Kutahya,
Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mugla, Mus, Nevsehir, Nigde, Ordu,
Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Siirt, Sinop, Sirnak, Sivas, Tekirdag, Tokat,
Trabzon, Tunceli, Urfa, Usak, Van, Yozgat, Zonguldak
_#_Independence: 29 October 1923 (successor state to the Ottoman Empire)
_#_Constitution: 7 November 1982