ANKARA

Middle East Technical University is located in Ankara. Ankara, the capital of Turkey, is a city of approximately 4,000,000 people. It lies in the center of the Anatolian Plateau at an altitude of 850 meters (3000 feet). A city of embassies and governmental offices located at the cross-roads between East and West, North and South, Ankara provides an unique opportunity to follow, at close range, rapid changes in world politics and governmental economic policies in Eastern Europe, Middle East and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Historically, Ankara's origins date back to a Hittite settlement in 2nd millennium BC. At one time it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. It became the capital of Turkey in 1923.

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Turkish Ministry of Culture
Ankara - Turkey's Capital City.
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