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PB, your "us" is America while I do believe that the "us" for you, alterkaker is not. And, AK, in an earlier post you called Turkey a pluralistic society....99.8% muslim and laws against even giving away bibles is pluralistic? Your Israeli slip is showing.
99.8% Muslim...fine what's the percentage of Christians in Italy? You can be nominally Muslim or nominally Catholic or nominally Jewish, but most Turks are essentially non-religious. Turkey's closest regional ally (aside from Azerbaijan, which is little more than a client state) is Israel, something you'd hardly expect from a bunch of drooling Islamist fanatics.
Turkey can kiss my red white and blue...
The EU will open an islamist can of worms if Turkey's accepted. I couldn't imagine in my wildest dreams, Turkey being admitted to the US as the 51st state.