Is capital of Turkey Istanbul or Ankara?

Many people would say Istanbul to this question but no; it is Ankara.
Istanbul was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire but when Turkey became a republic in 1923, Ankara, which had previously been just a small village, became capital.

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