We don't really care, you know.
Here's the stock market in Turkey over the past three years:
Circling the drain alright...
Posted on 10/16/2009 11:49:09 AM PDT by a_Turk
REACHING LAST weekend’s diplomatic breakthrough between Turkey and Armenia was not easy. It took six weeks of secret talks in Switzerland, seven last-minute phone calls from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the two countries’ foreign ministers, and a wild ride in a Zurich police car, lights flashing and siren shrieking, for a Turkish diplomat carrying a revised draft of the accord.
This breakthrough could also be said to have taken 16 years, the length of time the Turkey-Armenia border has been shut, or 94 years, the time that has passed since Ottoman Turkish forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey.
In the end, pragmatism prevailed over emotion. Armenia is a poor, landlocked country that desperately needs an outlet to the world. Turkey is a booming regional power, but suffers from its refusal to acknowledge the massacres of 1915. With this accord, each side helps solve the other’s problem. The border is to be reopened and diplomatic relations restored, giving Armenia a chance to rejoin the world. Questions about what happened in 1915 - was it genocide? - will be submitted to historians for “impartial scientific examination.’’
The most bizarre aspect of this process was the effort by Armenians in France and the United States to derail it. Earlier this month in Paris, President Serge Sarkisian of Armenia was met by shouts of “Traitor!’’ and had to be protected by riot police. The potent Armenian-American lobby also rallied against the accord.
If President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran proposed that impartial historians examine the question of whether the Holocaust actually happened, most Jews would presumably accept happily. The failed rebellion by Armenians in the diaspora suggests that some are trapped by the past; their cousins back home, meanwhile, seek a better future.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Turkey screwed us over in the Iraq War by not allowing transit of the 4th Infantry Division into Iraq from Turkey.. It is a good thing they were not allowed in the European Union.
Under other circumstances, Egypt, Pakistan, or Iran might have emerged to lead the Islamic world. Their societies, however, are weak, fragmented, and decomposing. Indonesia is a more promising candidate, but it has no historic tradition of leadership and is far from the center of Muslim crises. That leaves Turkey. It is trying to seize this role. Making peace with Armenia was an important step. More are likely to come soon.
Good piece.
Regionally perhaps, but global-economically Turkey is circling the drain....and the very idea that Turkey could ever be a part of Europe is simply laughable. Geography aside, the cultural chasm will never be bridged. Even third and fourth generation Turks in Europe are overwhelmingly aliens and largely welfare-dependent. The few exceptions prove the rule.
>> not one person in 100,000 gives a sh*t.
The worlds got over 5 billion fools, I don’t care if they don’t care, and you’re just another one of them.
>> It is a good thing they were not allowed in the European Union.
I agree. I can’t see gifting the place to the same bastards we threw out after WW1. The EU and her friends can kiss my ass.
>> Turkey screwed us over in the Iraq War
We’d rather be the pitcher than the catcher pal..
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