Can't lose what you never had

Submitted by Dave (Canada), Jun 29, 2010 at 09:08

_{Can't lose what you never had}

_{Turkey was never a western partner, they just lived under the sheild of the west due to geography,}

_{it was the Soviets or the west, which is better for Turkey?}

_{As for Ataturk, He enforced change for years, and the army after him, and now we can see that}

_{it didn't take, and now they are reverting to their old selves.}

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