To: Mrs. Don-o
Turkey is NOT in Europe. Wrong side of the bosporus strait.
3 posted on
07/16/2016 9:21:55 AM PDT by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vaquero; dfwgator
Should have kicked Turkey out of Nato when the cold war was over, only thing they were good for it seems was airbases and nuke missiles back then.
To: Vaquero
But a small part of that country is. Not much land mind you, but a small part of land touches into Europe.
7 posted on
07/16/2016 9:26:19 AM PDT by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Vaquero
The Turkish land mass isn’t called Asia Minor for nothing.
Cross the Bosphorus and you have exited Europe.
14 posted on
07/16/2016 9:46:21 AM PDT by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: Vaquero
Geographically, you are of course correct. The ancient Roman name for Turkey (before the Turks came) was "the Province of Asia."
However, the old Ottoman Empire at its height geographically straddled Europe, Asia and Africa. Culturally, many of the people in the northwest of the Anatolian peninsula --- present-day Turkey --- have long considered themselves Hellenic and therefore European. The people in the southwest, definitely not.
16 posted on
07/16/2016 9:52:52 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." - Daniel P. Moynihan)
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