[browardchad]

And for 50-odd Turkish Army soldiers who sat rigid in their combat fatigues, many of them awe-struck after their first ever flight, contemplated their new posting.

Turk, why is this?

[Tailback]

It's a draft army mostly in Turkey, many of these guys are probably fresh from small villages although looking at the pictures I'd guess most are from the Western part of Turkey which has some larger urban areas. I knew plenty of guys from West Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia that had their first plane ride when they got stationed in Germany in the US Army.

[a_Turk]

I won't say that most of my compadres ever had enough cash in one place to buy an airline ticket, but I also could think that the reporter's conceit is bleeding through here. We were, after all, declared a second class race by western Europeans in the early 20th century. That was, at least, information that their school books contained.

The one thing positive about that racist crap was their unwitting admission of our being our own race, with our own phylum, and myths - a detail which still escapes most folks.