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Avşa or Avşa Adası, also Türkeli, is a Turkish island in the south of Sea of Marmara. The island belongs to Marmara district of Balıkesir Province in northwestern Turkey. It is a popular domestic tourist destination, attracting tourists especially from Istanbul. The local population is around 2000 according to the last census, but especially in the summer season it rises as far as 40,000 to 50,000. |
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Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west, Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhichevan), and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea and Archipelago are to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. Separating Anatolia and Thrace are the Sea of Marmara and the Turkish Straits (the Bosporus and the Dardanelles), which are commonly reckoned to delineate the border between Asia and Europe, thereby making Turkey transcontinental.
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