You people are unreliable, opportunistic back stabbing two faced "allies" of passing convenience..
France baited Turkey into betraying the U.S., prior to the invasion of Iraq - and Turkey rose to the bait, only to have France laugh in their face and piss on their paperwork for entry into the EU.
The latest elections in Turkey indicate the nation is backsliding away from the secular republic Ataturk succeeded in securing and back toward an Islamic nation, known throughout history as a brutal, intolerant and barbarian aggressive nation....
The instances of Turkey working within the NATO framework, are clearly offset by those cases where Turkey acted in her own interests and against the welfare of free peoples... Need you be reminded of the acts of genocide against the Armenian and Greeks -- in areas as widespread as Asia Minor, Constantinople (now called Istanbul by the Turks), Eastern Thrace, Imvros, Tenedos, Macedonia, Cappadocia and Pontos.
Most Turks are still in denial they conducted their own Holocaust -- but denial doesn't render it untrue.
Should I remind you of past atrocities by our own government? Americans are in denial about the atrocities in Waco, Texas at the Branch Davidian Church. What about the Trail of Tears? What about the internment of Japanese?
You are clueless about modern day Turkey. Have you ever been there? I love how keyboard commandos rant and rave on the internet about things they know nothing about. Fool.
That absolutely comports with news reports at the time. Thanks.
Reports in the foreign press at the time said that France warned Turkey that if they help us they'd never, never be allowed into the EU.
In fact, the newly elected AKP headed by Gul at the time tried to get parliament to approve letting us use their territory but, if I recall correctly, it was the old, established political parties that defeated Gul's plan.