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By your standard Koreans, Taiwanese and Japanese are European. Your profile puts you in Israel. Turkey's current position is pro-Israel (but if Turkey's modern history has shown us anything it is that none of their positions is safe from the light breezes of political expediency - remember, turkey was Hitler's number one trading partner - until January 1945 when the writing was on the reichstag wall). I do suspect AK that this colors your opinion somewhat.
No, while I'm not a far-East expert, I think Turkey is closer culturally to Europe than are any of those countries. But more to the point, it's closer economically. Turkey's #1 trading partner, for both imports and exports, is the EU. Turks buy European cars, they work in factories owned by European companies producing goods sold in Europe, they are as much a part of Europe as Poland was before its entry into the European Union.
none of their positions is safe from the light breezes of political expediency - remember, turkey was Hitler's number one trading partner - until January 1945 when the writing was on the reichstag wall)
I'm not sure what that means. Turkey refused to enter the war on the side of Germany, as it had in 1914. And Turkey rescued thousands of Jews from extermination.