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Originally posted by Yorick:
You are all talking about a nation and people that conquered and oppressed dozens of nationalities for centuries. Why are the Turks even in Istanbul? Or should I say Byzantium. What happened to the Greeks there and in Ionia? What happened to the Gauls of Galatia in central Turkey? What about the Armenians they slaughtered? It's a nation with an extreme amount of crap on it's hands.
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Every nation does. The european colonists persued a wipe-em-out policy against native Americans. We Brits marched all over the world, including Australia, and put down the indigenous populations to serve our own needs. Every nation on earth of any importance has made its mark by invading, relocating, conquering and suppressing.
I'm not for one single second suggesting that this kind of behaviour is right. What Turkey does disgusts me, just as what we did to the Native Americans and the Aborigines does too. By all means point out what a bad thing Turkey is doing, but remember - no nation has clean hands when it comes to opression and persecution. Turkey is not alone in what it is doing - the only difference is that such acts are a part of our history, but their present.
And TL - indeed, it's not at all European, which is why Turkey consistently (and to the infuriation of its politicians and populace) gets denied the right to bid for EU entry. And quite right too!
