Turkey is located in both Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Ankara is the capital city of Turkey. Turkey is a secular and democratic republic whose first president was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is currently the Prime Minister and Abdullah Gül is the President. Turkish is the official language spoken by over 83 million people worldwide and has a basic word order of subject-object-verb.