Ah yes, our Turkish allies...Turkey is truly an enigmatic state. A thin Western veneer, growing thinner the further one gets from Constantinople, overlaying a miserable slab of Mohammadism. Only the legacy of Ataturk keeps the government secular-well, more or less, anyway-but if you travel to the Anatolian heartland and points east, you have wretched mohos squatting in villages ruined when the original Christian inhabitants were slaughtered or enslaved. The Turks were the last great barbarian force to trouble the West, and although they digested some civilization from dying Byzantium, they didn't digest a whole helluva lot. You have to give them credit for crushing their communist subversives during the Cold War, and at least they had the sense to realize the Soviets weren't nice guys, but that was then. Turkey is emphatically NOT a Western society. It is a very islamic culture indeed, and when dealing with islamic allies one is wise to keep an eye on them. Or two, if you can spare 'em
Good boy! :)
I see you are a huge 'expert' on Turkey. For how many years have you lived there?