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The capital of Turkey is Ankara which is located in central Anatolia. Ankara was preferred to Istanbul, which had been the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires for hundreds of years, because Istanbul was considered vulnerable to potential enemy attacks and also housed much of the Ancien Regime Intelligentsia. The new nation of Turkey chose Ankara as its capital as it was located in the middle of Anatolia (Asian Turkey).

Ankara is the capital of the Republic of Turkey.

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