RE: Turkey's role in middle eastern politics
November 25, 2011 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2011 at 7:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A sort of new turkish empire? Yeah, gl with that. Your "brothers" will most likely disappoint you.
Isreal, for the record, was formed from the ashes of WW2, not the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire hadn't existed at all in a little over three decades at that point. It had passed it's prime nearly four hundred years earlier as well.
LOL, hey, btw-
"The rise of nationalism swept through many countries during the 19th century, and it affected territories within the Ottoman Empire. A burgeoning national consciousness, together with a growing sense of ethnic nationalism, made nationalistic thought one of the most significant Western ideas imported to the Ottoman empire."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
Isreal, for the record, was formed from the ashes of WW2, not the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire hadn't existed at all in a little over three decades at that point. It had passed it's prime nearly four hundred years earlier as well.
LOL, hey, btw-
"The rise of nationalism swept through many countries during the 19th century, and it affected territories within the Ottoman Empire. A burgeoning national consciousness, together with a growing sense of ethnic nationalism, made nationalistic thought one of the most significant Western ideas imported to the Ottoman empire."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
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