Turkey

Turkey (トルコ,Toruko) is a character in the series Axis Powers Hetalia/Hetalia: Axis Powers. In 2008, Himaruya gave human names to some of the characters and he received the name Sadiq Adnan (サディク・アドナン, Sadiku Adonan).

Appearance
Turkey is rather tall and olive-skinned, with a slight stubble on his chin (like France). He wears a long green (sometimes tan) coat, brown pants, knee-high boots, a tan scarf, and a red fez hat. His face is usually obscured by a white mask. Like Greece, he has a double haircurl, but it rests down by his neck.

When not dressed up, he can often be seen wearing a green parka and brown pants.

Personality And Interests
Turkey is described as having a lively personality, as well as being competitive and friendly. He loves to entertain tourists, and favors the taste of sweet foods like ashure. He speaks in an Edo dialect.

Though his exact age has never been stated, he is one of the visibly physically older nations in the cast, and was known as the Ottoman Empire in his younger days.

Greece
Main Article: Greece

Turkey took Heracles under his control after having caused the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Greece would remain under Ottoman control until the 19th century, when he became involved in a war to regain his independence and won.

The two are unable to get along in the same environment without a fight of some sort, even after declaring a cease-fire.

Japan
Main Article: Japan

Turkey seems to have a soft spot for Japan, and Japam, in turn, has mutual respect for him. In one strip, Turkey starts fighting with Greece when he sees the two together, presuming Greece wanted to take over Japan. Turkey also threatened France on April Fool's with 'Don't you dare try anything on Japan. Or else I'll invade you.'

In the Anime
Turkey first appears in Episode 55, where he fights with Greece over who gets to be with Japan. The two wind up having to both hang out with him in the end.

In the anime adaptation, his skin is lighter and the visual gag of his eyebrows showing through his mask was elaborated on in his design, showing an obvious thick dark pair of eyebrows through the white color.

Trivia

 * Turkey is always shown with his mask in the manga, save for two panels in Christmas Rampage 2007 when he becomes unmasked, though his face still remains obscured (first by an arm, and then somewhat shadowed out). The first instance of him appearing maskless was in the Hetalia trading card set, though he is drawn facing off to the side, preventing an entire view of his face from being shown. The second instance was a drawing Himaruya posted to his blog, where Sadiq's face is clearly visible, albeit in shadow. In August 2010, a profile of Turkey was posted on Bamboo Thicket and included a link to a version where he wasn't wearing his mask, the first time his face is entirely visible.


 * Adnan is an Arabic male name and generally used by Muslims, and comes from Adnan, the ancestor of the Adnani Arabs. Sadiq (meaning 'loyal') is usually used as an Arabic surname, rather than a given name. It is also debatable if "Sadiq" should be instead spelled "Sadik", as the Turkish alphabet does not contain the letter "q".


 * His birthday corresponds with Republic Day (October 29th, 1923), when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved and Turkey officially became a republic.