[lentulusgracchus]

Now I am not sure if Europe and America have a problem with the Turkish model so far.

Not with the modernizing, secularist model of Ataturk and his successors -- which btw entailed a good deal of personal freedom except in certain sensitive areas of politics like the Kurdish issue and the Turkish Communists and Islamists.

[dfwgator]

which btw entailed a good deal of personal freedom except in certain sensitive areas of politics like the Kurdish issue and the Turkish Communists and Islamists.

And Americans trying to smuggle hashish out of the country.