A. The Anatolia peninsula is the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent, and makes up most of Turkey. The peninsula lies between the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits and the small Sea of Marmara separate Anatolia from the European portion of Turkey on the Balkan peninsula.

Q: Turkey’s president said his nation would no longer be Europe’s gatekeeper. Turkey houses more than 3.5 million refugees, most of them fleeing a long civil war in what nation on Turkey’s southeastern border?

A. Armenia

B. Georgia

C. Iran

D. Syria

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D. Turkey is bordered the northwest by the EU nations of Greece and Bulgaria; to the northeast by Georgia; to the east Armenia and Iran; and to the southeast by war-torn Syria and Iraq. Under a 2016 deal, the EU has sent billions in refugee aid in return for keeping Europe-bound asylum-seekers in Turkey, which now says the deal isn’t working.

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Q: In Saturday’s border clash, Turkish police fired tear gas back at Greek officers. The Anatolian and Balkan peninsulas were the battlegrounds of empires for thousands of years. Which was the last empire to rule both peninsulas?

A. Byzantine

B. Ottoman

C. Persian

D. Roman

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B. At the height of its power, the Turkish Ottoman Empire controlled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia and North Africa. Greece rebelled against Ottoman rule and fought a war of independence from 1821 and 1832. Ottoman rulers were overthrown after their defeat in World War I and the modern state of Turkey was established.

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Q: Turkey opened its land borders to migrants but is trying to prevent migrants from attempting to reach the Greek islands in dinghies to avoid “human tragedies.” Most of Greece’s islands are in which part of the Mediterranean?

A. Adriatic

B. Alboran

C. Aegean

D. Sardinia

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C. The Aegean lies between Greece and Turkey.

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