A hundred years ago, the Turkish army changed Turkey's Islamic identity to secularism and abolished the caliphate. The Turkish trend to open up to the Islamic world was accompanied by taking positions in support of the issues of Palestine and the Muslim minority in China, Myanmar and elsewhere.
The number of migrant workers reached more than 5 million people, and its foreign aid amounted to $ 8 billion in 2020. Turkey is the sixth most populous among Islamic countries. It ranks nineteenth globally in the international economy according to data from the previous year.