Originally Posted by MetroPornTour

Thanks for asking but I'm actually Quebecoise and Native North American. And before you ask my husband is Acadien and Sicilian. (Grew up mostly in Newfie)

So no Turk or muslim influence here.



You know if you go to Manitoba you will find that the majority of people in jail are Indian. It is the same problem, law enforcement singles them out. (Don't forget the comment "How do you wink at an Indian?")

Fact,

Industrial trade barriers between Europe and Turkey are down.

Turkey's population is mostly youth.

Turkey has had a growth of 9% each year for the last 10 years.

Turkey represents 70 million people making it the largest potential consumer market if allowed to join the E.U.

Allowing an Islamic nation to join would ease and stabalize tensions with other Islamic nations.

Historically you can't even dispute their claim to European membership.

Turkey has always been involved with Europe. Since the time of the Roman Emporer Constantine. When he moved the seat power from Rome to Constantinople. (Constantinople was officially renamed hahaha304;stanbul by the Republic of Turkey in 1930.)

To the early 1200s when the Fourth Crusade installed a Latin occupation of Constantinople. (Mid Byzantium period)

Basically this state and the inhabitants have always referred to themselves as Roman, as did most of their neighbors. But... the western Europeans, who also had their own version of a Roman Empire, named them Orientals or Greeks.