Pointless Facts About Your Country

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Turkey

• Our national anthem didn't have music until the 1940's
  

• Our oldest political party was founded before Turkey
  

• We've had three coups, two memorandums and six coup attempts
  

• Turkey was one of the first countries to develop domestic warplanes(In 1925)
  

• Turkey gave women the right to vote earlier than most countries including Canada, France and Switzerland(1930 for local elections, 1934 for national)
  

• Turkey(Or rather the Ottoman Empire) was the first country to legalise homosexual acts, in 1823
  

• We invented yoghurt not Greeks or Bulgarians
  

Edits:

• Turks didn't have surnames until 1934
  

• Turkey is the only Middle Eastern country to use the Latin alphabet
  

• Literacy rate was only 5% when we were founded