Why is Turkey so prone to earthquakes?

Turkey's high propensity for earthquakes is due to its location at the crossroads of three different tectonic plates.

These land masses, which make up the outermost shell of the Earth, are constantly moving and bumping into each other.

Earthquakes most often occur at the plate's fault lines, which are large fractures on the planet's surface.

Most of Turkey is located on the Anatolian tectonic plate, which sits between the major Eurasian and African plates and a minor one, the Arabian. 

As plates are forced up against and under each other, two plates can get "stuck" due to friction.

When these plates finally get "unstuck" as a result of a build-up of pressure, they release a huge amount of energy that is felt in the form of earthquakes, or tsunamis when tectonic plates converge under water.