Tamagotchi v5 character chart

Tamagotchi Famitama (V5) Character Chart

The members at http://tamacraze101.cjb.net have been hard at work creating a pixel and character chart of the Tamagotchi Connection Famitama (V5). If you would like to help contribute to the project and help us, please go to http://tamacraze101.cjb.net to help. We will appreciate any help we can get.

I am glad to say that the members and I have finished the Tamagotchi Connection V5 pixel character chart for Tamacraze101. I have done the chart for the few main families and I will add another chart for the other families soon. Re-distribution is prohibited!

For information on the chart, please go here---> http://tamacraze101.cjb.net/index.php?showtopic=3702

Here are the list of the Famitama (V5) Characters:

Mametchi Family

• Mametchi
• Chamametchi
• Papamametchi
• Mamamametchi
• Bagubagutchi

Memetchi Family

• Memetchi
• Imotchi
• Memepapatchi
• Mememamatchi
• Chitchii

Kuchipatchi Family

• Kuchipatchi
• Chibipatchi
• Papapatchi
• Mamapatchi
• Onsen Moguratchi

Furawatchi Family

• Furawatchi
• Kizatchi
• Papakizatchi
• Mamafurawatchi
• Hanatarezoutchi

Gozarutchi Family

• Gozarutchi 
• Konoitchi
• Kashiratchi
• Okugatatchi

Other Families:

• Osumotchi (Male and Female)
• Metaboritchi (Male and Female)
• Puchiputchi (Male and Female) 
• Puchioyatchi (Male and Female)
• Kuromametchi
• Papakurotchi
• Makiko
• Majorite
• Furikotchi
• Hatsugatchi
• Mumutchi
• Sukatchi
• Mimifuwatchi
• Pantsutchi
• Mausutchi
• Ahirukutchi
• Mattaritchi
• Sakuramotchi
• Belutchi
• Tororotchi
• Mamekatchi
• Bomutchi
• Korokotchi
• Ichigotchi 
• Shelutchi
• Hottotiitchi
• Watatchi
• Lavuzukintchi
• Potetchi
• Chantotchi
• Onputchi
• Yonepatchi
• Uhyotchi
• Nemutchi
• Mukugetchi
• Jidoutchi
• Ciaotchi
• Melulutchi
• Nazotchi
• Repotchi
• Depagatchi
• Gaidotchi
  

Family Names:

• Mamezoku Family
• Memezoku Family
• Kuchizoku Family
• Mametchi Family
• Memetchi Family
• Kuchipatchi Family
• Furawatchi Family
• Gozarutchi Family
• Large Family
• Puchi Family

Tamagotchi v4.5 characters

Tamagotchi V4.5 Character Chart

The below character chart is on the Tamagotchi V4.5. The characters below are not in any type of family order, it is just a chart to show all the V4.5 characters.
The chart is color coded:
Blue = Male Tamagotchi Only
Red = Female Tamagotchi Only
Light Green = Can be either Male or Female
The chart is also sectioned out into baby, child, teen, adult, special adults, and oldies. The top is thebaby stages, the one below it is the child stages, the one below that is the teen stages, below that is the adult stages, the bottom left is the special adults and the bottom right is the oldies. Please note that some of the character's names are missing and the names are Yankantchi, the character in the teenager section that is missing a name, and Mametchi is also missing its name, which is in the adult section of the chart.
Enjoy!
*This chart was assembled by Tamapal3000 for Tamacraze101. Redistribution Prohibited! Please report to Tamapal3000 if you do see another website or forum using this exact chart.

Tamagotchi v4 characters and growth chart

Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 Characters

Here is a Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 Chart! Enjoy!

I would like to thank -Ra- for letting me use his pixels. Credit go to -Ra- & Spudilike for finding out the names of the character. Credit go to me, Tamapal3000, for putting together the chart.
Re-Distribution of this chart is PROHIBETED!
Enjoy!

These are the names and pics of all the 52 characters that are in the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4.

Tamagotchi Version 4 Growth Chart

Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 Bits and Pieces

*Little Note: The Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 will be coming out in the USA on January 1, 2007!!! But, there are some places in the United States that have already had early releases so go check your local super store or toy store to see if you live in one of these places. I got my Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 at Super-Target.

In the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4, there are a lot of new features. I will talk to you about these new features. The best thing about the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 is that you can interact with your Tamagotchi in more than one way. In the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4, you can...

• Take your Tamagotchi to Tamagotchi School!
• There are 20 NEW games on the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4!
• New Skill Points!
• Your Tamagotchi can apply for a job when it is an adult, and the job you will be able to get will depend on your skill points!
• There is more interacting in the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 TamaTown!
• There is a new icon, in replacement of the light icon, is the "post" icon!
• In the "post" icon, your Tamagotchi can have it's fortune read, your Tamagotchi can get it's mail, and you can get updates on your Tamagotchi's school and work life!
• There are also a lot of new characters to take a peek at!
• And it is just plain FUN!!!

The Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 is just wonderfuly amazing. I will give you a more IN-DEPTH look on the features soon to come!!!

An In-Depth Look On The Tamagotchi Connection Version 4

Coming Soon...

Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 Games

Games of the Tamagotchi Version 4 and "How to Play" it here:
First you must know the buttons. The "A" button is the button all the way to the left of your tamagotchi. The "B" button is the button in the middle of your tamagotchi. The "C" button is the button all the way to the right. You will need to know this for these games.In the v4, there are 20 games total.
Baby Stage Games
Jumping Rope:
The way to play this is pretty self-explanatory, you just jump rope. You can use any of the buttons. When the rope turns, you will have to press one of the button and jump. It must be on time so you won't trip and fall. This is pretty self explanatory.
Child Stage Games
Mimic:
The way to play this is, there will be another tamagotchi character with you in the game. Both of you will be next to you and your tamagotchi will watch the other tamagotchi's moves. When the other tamagotchi freezes in a certain pose, your tamagotchi will start dancing and when it reaches the same pose the other tamagotchi is at, you will press any of the button, preferably the "B" button and mimic that pose, hence the name of the game, "Mimic".
Teenager Stage Games
Shape:
Ok, for this game, there are several shapes. There will be two sides, the left and the right where certain shapes will fall, when the shape starts to fall down, you have to press the "B" button to change your shape you are holding to match the shape that is falling, and when you have matched it, you will press the "A" button to let your shape go to the left or press the "C" button to let your shape go to the right, depending on where the other shape is falling. You must have quicks hands for this because you will have to match 30 to win the game, and it will get faster and faster.
Dance:
Ok, for this game, you will be dancing. It is not like the dancing in the Tamagotchi Version 1 though. For this game, there will be several circles above your tamagotchi, three to be exact. There will be one circle to the left, one in the middle, and on circle to the right. The circles will be darkened, and you must press the buttons that correspond with what circle has been shaded. For example, the left circle is shaded, so you will have to press the "A" button since it is the button farthest to the left, and if the middle circle is shaded, you will have to press the "B" button which is the middle button, and if the circle farthest to the right is shaded, you will have to press the, you guessed it, you will press the "C" button which is the button farthest to the right, but sometimes two circles maybe shaded, so if both the right and left circles are shaded at the same time, then you will press the "A" button and the "C" button at the same time.
Flag:
For this game, it is exactly like the Tamagotchi Version 3 game of flag. The buttons that are used in this game is the 'A' button and the 'C' button.Your tamagotchi will hold two flags.The flag to the left is a black flag and the flag to the right is a white flag. When playing there will be symbols above it telling which flag to raise up. When the symbol above shows a white flag, you will have to press the button acording to where the tamagotchi is holding the white flag and your tamagotchi will raise that flag up. The same thing if a black flag is shown. When both flags are shown black and white, then you will have to raise both flags.Sometimes it will trick you and show a flag that is shorter than the others. That is a trick, don't raise your flag up for that one. Wait to raise your flag to the right flag, the longer one. The short flag is a trick and the slightly longer flag is the one you want to raise your flag up to.
I will update this topic when I get to more of the games, because as of right now, my tamagotchi is a teen and this is all the game it knows how to play. Stay tuned!!!!

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Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 Games and Skill Points Theory:

I have seen that different games on the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 can gain different types of skill points. I have tested it around and this is true, certain games on the Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 helps gain up certain skill points for your Tamagotchi. I will list them below, so this way, if you want to focus on a certain skill point, this will help you to achieve this.

• The game "Jumping Rope"- This game brings up either your intellectual, artistic, or social points.
• The game "Mimic"- This game brings up either your intellectual, artistic, or social points.
• The game "Shape"- This game brings up your intellectual points.
• The game "Dance"- This game brings up your artistic points.
• The game "Flag"- This game brings up your social points.

Tamagotchi Connection Version 4 Shop Codes & Passwords

In tamagotchi v4, there are some codes that gets you secret items.To get these items you must first go to the shop and click the shop. Then, there will be a guy standing in the shop stand . Do not go any further. Now, you click the 'A' button, or the first button on you tamagotchi, starting from the left. Keep clicking the 'A' button until the guys expression changes.Then, you push the codes in order, according to the letters.Beware, you must type the codes in quick because he will return to normal and you will have to click the 'A' button again.

The codes are as follow:

To get the pen, push in: BBCA CCCA

To get the steak, push in: ACAB ACAC

To get the !! (clone), push in: BAAB ACBA

To get the Honey (love potion), push in: CCBA AABB

To get the CD3, push in: CAAA BACB

When you punch in all these shop codes, you will get a secret "rare cell phone".

Tamagotchi v3 growth chart and characters

Tamagotchi Version 3 Character Chart

Tamagotchi Version 3 Growth Chart

                                           This is a Tamagotchi Version 3 growth chart. When it says odd, to get that tamagotchi, it has to be of odd generation. When it says even, to get that tamagotchi, it has to be of even generation.Hope you like this growth chart.

Tamagotchi Connection Version 3 Food Dislikes/Likes

I would like to thanks -Ra- for the information on the likes and dislikes of food for each character.

Tamagotchi V3 Information

Games:

In Tamagotchi Connection Version 3, it has six games to play. The games are as follow, Get(music note), Bump, Flag, Heading, Memory, and Sprint.

Get(music note) - The buttons that are used in this game is the 'A' button and the 'C' button. The object of the game is to get all the music note without letting it drop into the bins.If one music note drops into the bins, the game is over. You have to guide your bin around to get the music note in your bin, while avoiding the poops, yes I said poops. There are poops falling everywhere like the music note. Don't catch the poop, because the game will be over if you miss catching a music note or you caught a poop.

Bump - The button used in this game is the 'B' button only. In this game, your tamagotchi will go up against another tamagotchi. Your tamagotchi has to try to push the opponent to where he/she falls down and your tamagotchi is still standing. You will have to help it to push the opponent down. Here is how your part of the game come in. At the beggining, your tamagotchi will go up against another tamagotchi. You just wait. Then it will say "PUSH" and that is when you press the 'B' button. Then this bar will come up and you will have to fill it up as far as you can with the 'B' button. The higher the bar is filled, the higher chance your tamagotchi willwin.

Flag - The buttons that are used in this game is the 'A' button and the 'C' button.Your tamagotchi will hold two flags.The flag to the left is a black flag and the flag to the right is a white flag. When playing there will be symbols above it telling which flag to raise up. When the symbol above shows a white flag, you will have to press the button acording to where the tamagotchi is holding the white flag and your tamagotchi will raise that flag up. The same thing if a black flag is shown. When both flags are shown black and white, then you will have to raise both flags.Sometimes it will trick you and show a flag that is shorter than the others. That is a trick, don't raise your flag up for that one. Wait to raise your flag to the right flag, the longer one. The short flag is a trick and the slightly longer flag is the one you want to raise your flag up to.

Heading - In this game, you use all the buttons in your tamagotchi, 'A' 'B' and 'C'.There will be a ball that will be dropping down.You will have to guide your tamagotchi to where the ball is falling down and then  press the 'B' button and your tamagotchi will jump up and hit the ball and make the ball go up again. Keep doing this until you win. You will have to do this for twenty times. Be sure not to make it fall to the ground or hit your head because you didn't jump in time.

Memory - In this game you use all the buttons.The 'A' button will be the left arrow. The 'B' button will be the arrow that is pointing up. The  'C' button will be the right arrow. In this game you will have to use your memory, hence the name of the game, Memory.It will give you a sequence, a pattern, and then you will have to enter the pattern in exactly like it showed you with the buttons. example, if it showed you left, right, up, you will have to press 'A', 'C', and 'B',which will be left, right up.

Sprint - In this game, you use only one button, but you can use any one of the buttons. You will race another tamagotchi to the finish line. Whenyou set off to race, you will have to press the button very quickly to win. This game is very simple. Just press any one button very quick to win and go to the finish line.

Tamagotchi Connection Version 3 Shop Codes & Passwords

In tamagotchi v3, there are some codes that gets you secret items.To get these items you must first go to the shop and click the shop. Then, there will be a guy standing in the shop stand . Do not go any further. Now, you click the 'A' button, or the first button on you tamagotchi, starting from the left. Keep clicking the 'A' button until the guys expression changes.Then, you push the codes in order, according to the letters.Beware, you must type the codes in quick because he will return to normal and you will have to click the 'A' button again.

The codes are as follow:

To get a cake push in: ABBA ACBA

To get a steak push in: BCAB ACBC

To get a cookoo clock push in: CBAC CABC

To get a RC car2 push in: AABB CACB

To get a stuffed animal push in: CACA BABC

To get hair gel push in: ACBB BACC

To get love potion push in: BCBC CABA

The passwords that you get from Tamatown can only be used by your username.Other people can not use your password unless they have the same username as you do.

These are the only 2 passwords that works for every Tamagotchi :  63532 86367 = ink pen

                                                                                                      32479 91490 = !! (clone)

tamagotchi v2 growth chart

Tamagotchi V2 Characters

Tamagotchi Version 2 Growth Chart

Tamagotchi Connection Version 2 Food Dislikes/Likes

I would like to thank Bellsprout for providing me the information of the dislikes/likes of each characters.

Tamagotchi v1 growth chart

Tamagotchi V1 Characters

Tamagotchi Version 1 Growth Chart

Tamagotchi Connection Version 1 Food

I would like to thank Bellsprout for some of the information.

Tamagotchi Version 1 Information

Games:

In Tamagotchi connection version 1, there are only two games to play, dance and jump.More info below

Jump: In this game you use the 'B' button to jump the hurdles.Try to jump the hurdles without tripping over them.

Dance: In this game you use all of the buttons.Your tamagotchi will do a routine and when it is done, you press the buttons in order to the way it danced.

This is my tamagotchi playing the two different games that is in V1.The picture at the left is Chery playing the game jump.The picture to the right is Chery doing a routine for me to copy in the game dance.

Training:

When you hear your Tamagotchi beep you or the 'attention' icon is lit, your Tamagotchi needs something.If you look and see your Tamagotchi crying, you need to praise it and it will be happy again, and will get one bar in its training bar.If it has its back turned on you, it is mad and you need to praise it.It will be happy when you praise it.If your Tamagotchi calls you or the 'attention' icon is lit for no reason, you need to give it a timeout.

Feeding and Playing:

When you look at your tamagotchi's stats and one of its hungry hearts is emptied, you need to feed it food for it to be refilled and your tamagotchi to not be hungry anymore. When one of your tamagotchi's happy hearts is emptied, you will need to feed it a snack or play games with it for it to be refilled and your tamagotchi to be happy.

This is what I mean by happy and hungry hearts. It tells if your tamagotchi is hungry and unhappy.When you see one of the hearts emptied, you need to fill it in by feeding it if one of the hungry heart is emptied, or play with it or feed it a snack if one of its happy hearts is emptied.

Tamagotchi V1 Presents

If you are wondering what a certain Tamagotchi character gets as a present,I will tell you here.As you can see, most of the child,and teenager forms get a ball as a present.The adult forms get different types of present. When your Tamagotchi turns into adult form, it cannot use the ball.The presents that every Tamagotchi gets is a cake,poop,flower,or snake.

This is a Marutchi.The present that Marutchi gets is a ball. When someone's tamagotchi you connected with gives you a ball, go to the present list to choose the ball. Marutchi will then play with the ball.

  This cute little tamagotchi is a Kinakomotchi.The present that kinakomotchi recieves is a ball.When the other tamagotchi you connected with gives you a ball, go to the present list and click on the ball.Kinakomotchi will then play with the ball.

This is a little Ichigotchi.The present that Ichigotchi get when it connects with someone is a ball.When the other tamagotchi you connected with gives you a ball, go to the present list and choose the   ball.Ichigotchi will then play with the ball.
This is an adorable Young Mimitchi.The present that Young Mimitchi gets is a ball.When you get a ball from the tamagotchi you connected with, go to the present list and pick the ball.Young Mimichi will then play with the ball.
This wild creature is a Hinotamatchi.The present that Hinotamatchi gets when you connect is a ball.When you get a ball, go to the present list and choose the ball.Hinotamatchi will play with the ball.

This onion looking tamagotchi is an Oniontchi.The present that Oniontchi gets is a ball.When you get the ball that the other tamagotchi gave you, go to the present list and pick the ball. Oniontchi will then play with the ball.

This adorable little creature is a Mimitchi. Mimitchi is an adult, so it gets two presents.One of the present that Mimitchi gets is a bow.It will wear the bow and cutely show off its bow. The other present that Mimitchi gets is a crayon.It will sit on a table and draw something.Mimitchi will show you what it wrote.These are the presents that Mimitchi gets.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This cute little Tamagotchi is a Mametchi.Mametchi also gets two present.One of the presents is a bow like Mimitchi.With the bow, Mametchi will wear the bow on its neck and do a little dance.The other present that Mametchi gets is a crayon.Mametchi will sit on a table and write something.Mametchi will also show you what it wrote.

These very cute and big, rounded eyes belongs to Memetchi. One of the present that Memetchi gets is a hat.When you choose the present icon and click the hat, Memetchi will wear the hat and make the hat go up and down.The other present of Memetchi's are Maracas.Pick this and Memetchi will take and shake it.

                    This worm like creature is called a Hanatchi.One of the present that Hanatchi gets is bubblegum.I have not got bubblegum so I don't know what it does with it.The best bet is that it blows a bubble with it.The second present is a wig. I guess it will take the wig and wear it.

This robot tamagotchi is called an Androtchi , but is mostly called Robotchi.The presents that Androtchi  get is bubblegum and a wig. I think Androtchi does the same things with these presents as Hanatchi.

This duck looking little creature is a Kuchipatchi. One of the present that Kuchipatchi gets is a hat and the other present that Kuchipatchi gets are maracas.These presents are the same deal as the presents that Memetchi gets.

This tamagotchi I think looks like a chicken.It is called a Tarakotchi.One of the present that it gets is a skateboard.When you get the skateboard, Tarakotchi will get it and skate on it, going back and forth,out of the screen and back. The other present that it gets are boots.It will get the boots and walk funny in them.

This tamagotchi is not one of my favorites.It is called a Masktchi.One of the presents that it gets is a cape. It will wear the cape and go around in it.The other present that it gets are some wings. It will wear the wings and fly in them.

This tamagotchi is called a Gozarutchi. This tamagotchi gets a present that no other tamagotchi gets. The present that no other gets are some ninja stars.It will take them and throw them. The other present that it gets is a cape.It will wear the cape and go around in it.

This nut like tamagotchi is called a Nazotchi. I've never got this tamagotchi , so I don't know much about it. I think it gets only one present.The present that it gets is a water jug. I really don't know what it does with it.

Turkey

Turkic migration

Further information: Turkic migration, History of Anatolia, and History of the Turkic peoples

Before the Turkic settlement, the local population of Anatolia had reached an estimated level of 12 to 14 million people during the late Roman Period.^[2][3][4] The migration of Turks to the country of modern Turkey occurred during the main Turkic migration across most of Central Asia and into Europe and the Middle East which was between the 6th and 11th centuries. Mainly Turkic people living in the Seljuk Empire arrived Turkey in the eleventh century. The Seljuks proceeded to gradually conquer the Anatolian part of the Byzantine Empire. In the following centuries, the local population began to be assimilated into the Turkish people. More Turkic migrants began to intermingle with the local inhabitants over years, thus the Turkish-speaking population was bolstered.

[edit]Seljuq Dynasty

Main articles: Turkic migration, Seljuk Empire, and Sultanate of Rûm

The House of Seljuk was a branch of the Kınık Oğuz Turks who resided on the periphery of the Muslim world, north of the Caspian and Aral Seas in the Yabghu Khaganate of the Oğuz confederacy^[5] in the 10th century. In the 11th century, the Turkic people living in the Seljuk Empire started migrating from their ancestral homelands towards the eastern regions of Anatolia, which eventually became a new homeland of Oğuz Turkic tribes following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.

The victory of the Seljuks gave rise to the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, a separate branch of the larger Seljuk Empire ^[6] and to some Turkish principalities (beyliks), mostly situated towards the Eastern Anatolia which were vassals of or at war with Seljuk Sultanate of Rum.

[edit]Mongol Rule

A Mongol horse archer in the 13th century

Main articles: Mongol Empire and Ilkhanate

In 1243, the Seljuk armies were defeated by the Mongols in the Battle of Kosedag, and the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm became a vassal of the Mongols. This caused the Seljuks to lose its power. Hulegu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan founded the Ilkhanate in the southwestern part of the Mongol Empire. The Ilkhanate State ruled Anatolia by Mongol military governors. Last Seljuk sultan died in 1308. The Mongol invasion of Transoxiana, Iran, Azerbaijan and Anatolia caused Turkomens to move to Western Anatolia. ^[7] The Turkomens founded some Anatolian principalities (beyliks) under the Mongol dominion in Turkey.^[8] The most powerful beyliks were the Karamanoğlu (or the Karamanid) and the Germiyan in the central area. Along the Aegean coast, from north to south, stretched Karesi, Saruhan, Aydınoğlu, Menteşe and Teke principalities. The Candaroğlu (also called İsfendiyaroğlu) controlled the Black Sea region round Kastamonu and Sinop.^[9] The Beylik of Ottoman Dynasty was situated in the northwest of Anatolia, around Söğüt, and it was a small and insignificant state at that time. The Ottoman beylik would, however, evolve into the Ottoman Empire over the next 200 years, expanding throughout the Balkans,Anatolia.^[10]

[edit]Ottoman Dynasty

Mehmed II enters Constantinople by Fausto Zonaro

Main articles: Ottoman Empire and Ottoman territories in Europe

The Ottoman beylik's first capital was located in Bursa in 1326. Edirne which was conquered in 1361 ^[11] was the next capital city. After largely expanding to Europe and Anatolia, in 1453, the Ottomans nearly completed the conquest of the Byzantine Empire by capturing its capital, Constantinople during the reign of Mehmed II. This city has become the capital city of the Empire following Edirne. The Ottoman Empire would continue to expand into the Eastern Anatolia, Central Europe, the Caucasus, North and East Africa, the islands in the Mediterranean, Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Arabian peninsula in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

The Ottoman Empire's power and prestige peaked in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. The empire was often at odds with the Holy Roman Empire in its steady advance towards Central Europe through the Balkans and the southern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.^[12] In addition, the Ottomans were often at war with Persia over territorial disputes. At sea, the empire contended with the Holy Leagues, composed of Habsburg Spain, the Republic of Venice and the Knights of St. John, for control of the Mediterranean. In the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman navy frequently confrontedPortuguese fleets in order to defend its traditional monopoly over the maritime trade routes between East Asia and Western Europe; these routes faced new competition with the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.

The Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 marked the beginning of the Ottoman decline; some territories were lost by the treaty: Austria received all of Hungary and Transylvania except the Banat; Venice obtained most of Dalmatia along with the Morea (the Peloponnesus peninsula in southern Greece); Poland recovered Podolia.^[13] Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire continued losing its territories, including Greece, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and theBalkans in the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars. Faced with territorial losses on all sides the Ottoman Empire forged an alliance with Germany who supported it with troops and equipment. The Ottoman Empire joined the World War I on the side of the Central Powers, after granting two German warships as refugees.

On October 30, 1918, the Armistice of Mudros was signed, followed by the imposition of Treaty of Sèvres on August 10, 1920 by Allied Powers, which was never ratified. The Treaty of Sèvres would break up the Ottoman Empire and force large concessions on territories of the Empire in favour of Greece, Italy, Britain and France.

[edit]Republic era

Main articles: History of the Republic of Turkey and Atatürk's reforms

The occupation of some parts of the country by the Allies in the aftermath of World War I prompted the establishment of the Turkish national movement.^[12] Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, a military commander who had distinguished himself during the Battle of Gallipoli, the Turkish War of Independence was waged with the aim of revoking the terms of the Treaty of Sèvres.^[14] By September 18, 1922, the occupying armies were expelled. On November 1, the newly founded parliament formally abolished the Sultanate, thus ending 623 years of Ottoman rule. The Treaty of Lausanne of July 24, 1923, led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the newly formed "Republic of Turkey" as the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, and the republic was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923, in the new capital of Ankara.^[12] Mustafa Kemal became the republic's first President of Turkey and subsequently introduced many radical reforms with the aim of founding a new secular republic from the remnants of its Ottoman past.^[12] According to the Law on Family Names, the Turkish parliament presented Mustafa Kemal with the honorific surname "Atatürk" (Father of the Turks) in 1934.^[14]

Ankara, the capital of Turkey today

Turkey remained neutral during most of World War II but entered on the side of the Allies on February 23, 1945, as a ceremonial gesture and in 1945 became a charter member of the United Nations.^[15] Difficulties faced by Greece after the war in quelling a communist rebellion, along with demands by the Soviet Union for military bases in the Turkish Straits, prompted the United States to declare the Truman Doctrine in 1947. The doctrine enunciated American intentions to guarantee the security of Turkey and Greece, and resulted in large-scale U.S. military and economic support.^[16]

After participating with the United Nations forces in the Korean War, Turkey joined NATO in 1952, becoming a bulwark against Soviet expansion into theMediterranean. Following a decade of intercommunal violence on the island of Cyprus and the Greek military coup of July 1974, overthrowing PresidentMakarios and installing Nikos Sampson as a dictator, Turkey invaded the Republic of Cyprus in 1974. Nine years later the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was established. Turkey is the only country that recognises the TRNC ^[17]

The single-party period was followed by multiparty democracy after 1945. The Turkish democracy was interrupted by military coups d'état in 1960, 1971, 1980and 1997.^[18] In 1984, the PKK began an insurgency against the Turkish government; the conflict, which has claimed over 40,000 lives, continues today.^[19]Since the liberalization of the Turkish economy during the 1980s, the country has enjoyed stronger economic growth and greater political stability.^[20]