Turkey True or False?

It is Ankara

Turkey is officially a secular state, though since the 1980s Islamic groups have increasingly challenged the secularization called for by Atatürk in his reforms of the 1920s

It is NATO's only (mostly) Asian member, joining in 1952, three years after NATO's founding

Sertab Erener won in 2003 with the song "Everyway That I Can"

A Dutch ambassador brought tulip bulbs home from Constantinople where they had been cultivated by the Ottoman Turks, triggering tulip mania in Europe. The tulip remains Turkey's national flower and a symbol of Turkey

It means "Father of the Turks" and was bestowed upon Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by the Turkish Parliament in 1934

It is an ancient (and controversial) sport, with regular festivals still held in the Aegean region of Turkey

The Turks first settled in Anatolia in the 11th century. Evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities in Northeast China

Turkeys are native to North America, though they get their name indirectly from Turkey, the place

Azerbaijan, another Turkic country, has reportedly been considering it, but has yet to

Their distinctive sounds inspired many European composers, like Mozart with his Turkish Rondo

64.9% of the residents live on the European side of the city and 35.1% on the Asian side

Saint Nicholas was born circa 280 in Patara, Lycia, and served as bishop of nearby Myra, a city now called Demre, on Turkey's Southern coast

It's a nice place to visit on a dark night

Atatürk banned the fez in the 1920s as it was seen to symbolise the Ottoman Empire. The law was never overturned, though you're unlikely to be arrested for wearing one