What are you thinking for TURKS

[cegorach]

Good guys. Poland had a friend in Turkey for a long time and there was hardly any hatered between our nations. Of course many people know about all those Polish-Turkish wars, but these were mostly because of some over-ambitious Ottoman leaders who were 'encouraged' to learn never to annoy our country in several battles


About the Turks in this forum - there are very helpful, reliable and you can count on their promises.
Don't you think Mouzafphaerre

Regards Cegorach

[English assassin]

Present day Turkey? It will be a bit of a worry if the secular tradition insisted on by Ataturk is overthrown by Islamic parties, certainly.

Should Turkey join the EU? Alas, I have to say until her GDP per head, basic legal structure and so on, are more aligned with Europe, I would have to say no. However I would hope that with trading links and other support the EU could help Turkey to a position where that is possible.

Lets face it it would put the wind up the Americans for a start.

I don't know all that much about historical Turkey, I gather that the Ottoman empire was no worse than any other, with all due respect I have to say I am glad the Austrians turned it back to the Balkans, and that, coupled with the fact that Lawrence of Arabia had a rather nasty experence in a Turkish jail, more or less sums up my knowledge.

Welcome to the Org.

[Colovion]

what do Turks call themselves?

seeing as the Europeans called nearly all steppe cultures Tatars or Turks, they just ended up accepting that name