The Socialist Republic of Turkey is a country located between Europe and West Asia. It is led by President Sadun Aren, a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" and creator of the Worker's Party of Turkey which recently wrested power from the traditionally ruling Socialist-Republican People's Party in the country's first multiparty elections. A successor state of the Ottoman Empire which collapsed under its own weight, Turkey was born from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's perhaps accurate notion that adhering to imperialism after the crimes Istambul had committed would be asking for retaliation against the Turks, as well as a century of non-stop rebellion and civil war. In 1932 he was assassinated, prompting the beginning of a crisis within his party which foreshadowed civil war, but this was prevented by an actual Soviet invasion dubbed the Soviet-Turkish War. Turkey's left wing republicans were put into power and the nation adopted a Soviet dual economic system. During World War II, the nation sent forces to the Balkan and Middle-Eastern theatres, and was a major participant in the Battle for the Mediterranean. Turkey distinguishes itself for, rather than being a one-party republic or a dictatorship like most other commuist states, adopting a more conventional multiparty democracy under a socialist constitution. This policy has brought Turkey under scrutiny, even by reformers such as Khrushchev.