RE: Turkey's role in middle eastern politics
November 25, 2011 at 7:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2011 at 7:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Oh, you mean that once upon a time, the land that Israel sits on had Turkish squatters? Unsurprising. Again, there was no Ottoman Empire for Israel to rise out of. It had officially ended 30 years prior. You've said that you knew where Turkey had screwed the pooch, with NATO, yes? How about picking the wrong team in WW1, costing you most of your possessions in the Balkans, in the Arabian penisula and the Middle East? Or maybe it was fence sitting during WW2 (except, of course, for the goods sold to the Reich)?
The greatest contribution the area made to humanity happened roughly 8 thousand years ago at Catalhoyuk. Why not romanticize that instead of some pipe dream about a resurgent Ethnic Turkish Empire, or the virtues of an entirely unremarkable warrior culture?
The greatest contribution the area made to humanity happened roughly 8 thousand years ago at Catalhoyuk. Why not romanticize that instead of some pipe dream about a resurgent Ethnic Turkish Empire, or the virtues of an entirely unremarkable warrior culture?
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