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.
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Allow me to explain then...turkey signed a mutual non-aggression pact with Hitler and was, throughout the war, the Nazis number one trading partner and their chief supplier of chromium. This in spite of continuous requests from the US and UK to refrain. It was only after the foundling UN set having declared war on one of the Axis powers as the bar for charter membership that turkey, in January 1945, voided the pact and declared war on Germany.
Turkey's behaviour in 1950 (Korea) and 2003 (Iraq) kept their duplicitous, self-serving, un-principalled record intact.