[Republicain]

As the french historian Max Gallo said : "La Turquie, ce n'est pas l'Europe. L'histoire à cet égard est sans appel." "Turkey it's not Europe. On that account, history is non-appealable".

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Mr. Giscard d'Estaing also had similar opinions. However, Turkey is extremely similar to Western Europe, in some ways far more than the former Soviet bloc countries of the EU 10.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You Europeans (particularly the French, Germans, and the Austrians) do seem to be rather emphatic on Turkey not being part of Europe as a fact (the British tend to be more proTurkey, though this could be part of their derailing EU political union agenda).

However, Europe's history does make Turkey seem very much part of your continent.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

BTW, in the United States, sort of opposite to your (Europe and Turkey) situation, some people cut out Mexico and Central America from North America because those countries a not as culturally as similar as the United States and Canada, when those countries are definitely part of geographic North America.

P.S. in France, are the Americas split up into North and South America, or a both continents considered one? it would be absurd for that to be the case and Europe and Asia to be two separate continents. North and South America are as separated as Eurasia and Africa.