[arthurus]

From one whose childhood in Istanbul left me sympathetic to Turkey by default. It has taken a while to take off my nostalgia glasses.

[theBuckwheat]

Slouching towards a (nuclear armed) caliphate. Life in the (infidel) west will take on a whole new set of challenges soon.

[Gay State Conservative]

Everything I've read suggests that Turkey,long a comparatively reasonable/civilized moslem country,has recently started trending toward become just another radical moslem cesspool.Sorry,OP...I don't mean to put you,or your family,down in any way.