What is the capital city of Turkey, designated following the establishment of the Republic in 1923?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Ankara
- Step 1: Following the Turkish War of Independence, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moved the capital from Istanbul to Ankara in central Anatolia in October 1923.
- Step 2: Ankara served as a geographic and strategic bastion away from vulnerable coastal choke points.
Answer
Ankara
Why not the others: 'Istanbul' (formerly Constantinople and Byzantium) was the historic capital of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires, but is not the modern republic's capital; 'Izmir' is an Aegean port city and major commercial center; 'Bursa' was the early capital of the Ottoman state in the 14th century.
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