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Originally posted by Lev
I am not going to argue with you. Just type "turkey" in human rights watch or freedom house reports and you will see what I am talking about.
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I don't disagree on Turkey's abismal human rights record. Read above I said "No one denies that." And the rest of your comments about Turkey's past is also 100% correct.
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Maybe citizens vote for their government, because there is no strong opposition, have you ever thought about that, if you look at it this way,
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Oh but there is opposition:
http://www.electionworld.org/turkey.htm#parties
Remember when Turkey didn't allow US to use its soil to invade Iraq? Well that was voted in the Turkish parliment more than once even though it would have been in the best interests of Turkey to allow the US because of return favours that the US promised them. They rejected it though.
I agree its democracy can be improved to Western Europe standards as the President wants but its still a democracy (even the US recognizes it as a Democracy
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/tu.html).
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.S. could care less about Turkey's poor democracy and what it does to its minorities. It's politics. [/B]
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The US still doesn't care about Turkey's past, the US congress tried to pass a bill to recognize Turkey's massacres but was blocked by the White House after Turkey sent some delegates to warn them that they'll use their vote different and that they will deny US the use of its bases to attack any country, etc.