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Turkey has remarkably diverse landscapes, including mountains, rolling plains, meandering rivers, rich agricultural valleys, and a craggy coastline which is the product of complex earth movements that have shaped the region over thousands of years and still manifest in fairly frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions. The country's territory of 774,815 km 2 also possesses a remarkable biological diversity. A 1999 Environmental Performance Review by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development noted that 3/4 of the approximately 12,000 species of European flora can be found in the country.
Turkey's most important research cooperation partners are the United States and Germany. As a result of the membership of Turkey in the 6th research master program of the European Union new perspectives arise for intensification of cooperation. Turkey, especially is an attractive partner in environmental and material research as well as in life sciences. http://greenhorizon.rec.org/bulletin/Bull103/turkeys.html and www.internationale-kooperation.de
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