Well, what I do know about you is that you are making uneducated claims like “Turkey is the most democratic, European and western of all middle eastern nations”, which is untrue. So I do know jack$&#$ about you. I know that you don’t know your history of the near and middle east.

Turkey has no freedom of speech (Google Article 301), and therefore it is anything but a democratic country.

Turkey is a nation where you can’t log on to youtube because they don’t want their citizens to see any of those Anti Ataturk videos or videos about the Armenian Genocide.

Turkey is also a nation that has liquidated, through genocide, intimidation, and fear ANYBODY who is not a Muslim Turk, including Jews, Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.

Research your history before you make claims regarding who is democratic and European. Last time I checked, ALL the European countries have been very accepting of minorities and have a mixed population (unlike Turkey which is 99.5% Turk). Turkey has been racist against ALL non Muslim Turks. If they were so democratic and European, they would have been accepted into the EU a long time ago, but most of the major European countries are fiercely opposed to it because of all of the reasons that I have stated above.

And for your knowledge, Turkey hasn’t done anything to myself or my family. I just happen to be an avid reader of history, so I can’t stomach people putting racist nation with a horrendous human rights record in a class of “democratic and European.”

Obviously, you’ve only been in Istanbul or one of the other few towns that are remotely European. Try going to the east where Kurds are kidnapped, tortured and killed by the Turkish government on a daily basis. Most of Turkey is stuck in the last century. 

Also, you should sharpen up on your knowledge of the middle east. Lebanon is far more European than Turkey, but you wouldn’t know that since CNN doesn’t broadcast that sort of thing in order not to upset US foreign policy.

It’s amazing how you could make excuses for one of the most barbaric nations on the planet that is as racist today as it was a hundred years ago.

Why should we care what a country like Turkey thinks about the United States. Turkey is a nation built on the Genocide, massacre, and unspeakable horrors against their minorities. In the last hundred years, Turkey’s minority population (Armenians, Jews, Greeks) has gone from 20% to 0.5%. Other than killing close to 5 million of their citizens, they have driven out anybody that wasn’t a Turk Muslim through intimidation, oppression, unfair taxation, and fear tactics.

Just look at what they did to the Armenians in 1915, the Jews in 1942, the Greeks in 1955, and the Kurds starting in the 1970’s, all the way to present day.