Turkey was founded on a former Roman territory, approximately one thousand years ago. Very often, they called their state, their territory and even themselves “Roman” (Rum, in Turkish): Roman Saltanate, Rum Seljuk, Rum Province…
Today, only southeastern corner of Turkey is middle eastern. The rest is rather eastern European (Balkan, in particular). Turkish people (culture, traditions, habits) are much like Greeks, Romanians, Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Macedonians.
Some people think that Turkey was a middle eastern country and after the westernization revolutions it became different. This is not true. It was always different. It was a Balkan country, in negative or positive aspect, and still is.
And interesting that today the most difficult part in integrating to the rest of country is the southeastern part of Turkey: PKK terrorism, tribal structure, feudal institutions, poverty etc…
Tectonic plate movement is run by convection of mantle currents.
Whatever fossil is at the lowest layer is the oldest cuz the old fossils lived along time ago and when they died the fossils were buried.
<h3>Consequences of soil erosion</h3>
Soil erosion decreases agricultural productivity, degrades ecosystem functions, amplifies hydrogeological risk such as landslides or floods, causes significant losses in biodiversity, damage to urban infrastructure and, in severe cases, leads to displacement of human populations.
