Why Turkey is not Europe?

[Uzumaki]

Yea, it can be a bridge between Europe and Asia, but that alone means that it is not truly European in spirit. Their culture, religion, ethnic ancestry etc are just too far off from the groups that make European civilization what it is. It is a bridge because we influenced it, but we cannot influence ourselves. It's part of a different civilization.

The fact that Turkey is part of all kind of European related programs and cooperations does not really matter one bit. The Turks that want to act like they are European are imo just coping. The majority of Turks don't think of themselves as Europeans or Westerners.

[Uzumaki]

Also scandinavians believed to have shaped european culture...

To me... Scandinavian culture ( 2 level inferior to turkish culture..) and Turkish culture are alien to EUROPE...
Please don't say that normans and bla bla... vikings bla bla.. Till XIX century vikings were unknown in Europe...

The normans we can talk about were 100% romanized..

LOL, that is one of the richest things I have read as of lately. Scandinavian culture not part of Europe?

The Germanic nations have contributed so much to Europe ever since the fall of the Roman Empire.

What would you say is Scandinavian culture then? A thing on its own? Unrelated to anything European and Western? That makes zero sense.

There is more to the Germanic nations than Vikings and Normans. Romanization definitely does not equal European culture.

[Leslie Simpson]

Yea, it can be a bridge between Europe and Asia, but that alone means that it is not truly European in spirit. Their culture, religion, ethnic ancestry etc are just too far off from the groups that make European civilization what it is. It is a bridge because we influenced it, but we cannot influence ourselves. It's part of a different civilization.

The fact that Turkey is part of all kind of European related programs and cooperations does not really matter one bit. The Turks that want to act like they are European are imo just coping. The majority of Turks don't think of themselves as Europeans or Westerners.

You are right, there are a lot of conservative families in Turkey who simply will not accept the traditions and modern European trends (fashion, music, lifestyle). Their society is more closed, since the country is Muslim, everything is very strict with them.

[Hurrem sultana]

if Armenia and Georgia are Europe then Turkey is so Europe

[Dušan]

Turkey is part of MENA world.

[Hurrem sultana]

Turkey is part of MENA world.

then so is armenia georgia and all those countries

[Dušan]

then so is armenia georgia and all those countries

ok

[Watson]

if Armenia and Georgia are Europe then Turkey is so Europe

haha you are trying to get your masters accepted as europeans using armenia and georgia how pathethic. bosniaks are the lowest people in europe. bosniaks are not europeans your culture is not european you are turkish dogs

[Hurrem sultana]

haha you are trying to get your masters accepted as europeans using armenia and georgia how pathethic. bosniaks are the lowest people in europe. bosniaks are not europeans your culture is not european you are turkish dogs

i am not trying anything,i do not even care about being european i am confident in who i am...what do you think? that beeing european makes you somehow better? in that case japanese are above you as well


we bosniaks are just euopeans because we exist on this continent,we are not western nor do we want to be...

[Watson]

i am not trying anything,i do not even care about being european i am confident in who i am...what do you think? that beeing european makes you somehow better? in that case japanese are above you as well

you are trying to become more european making turks european. bosniaks are garbage of europe low life turkish lapdogs.