“Turkish” Mausers..., Orient Express...
German industrialism and markets in the east...
“German–Turkish relations have their beginnings in the times of the Ottoman Empire and have culminated in the development of strong bonds with many facets that include economic, military, cultural and social relations.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Turkey_relations
Germany is to Turkey as America is to ChinaMart...
Lewis and Clark were looking for a “northwest passage” to the east...among other thangs
...before Bill Clinton...the only two adult down on the floor of the Oval Office were Thomas Jefferson and Merriwether Lewis ...
looking at maps.
( ; ) donchathink?
The Turks after the war, when “westernizing” their alphabet (from Arabic-like script to the Latin alphabet) even used German as a model; they use the umlauts and such. Throughout the Cold War West Germany imported a lot of Turk labor (though they often wouldn’t confer citizenship); East Germany simultaneously imported Vietnamese (and paid them to leave as their country/economy crumbled).