I might slightly agree with you to a certain extent, but with the strong exception that it is not meaningful to draw opinions on multi-million nations based on

I might slightly agree with you to a certain extent, but with the strong exception that it is not meaningful to draw opinions on multi-million nations based on individual immigrants or expats. I'm from Bulgaria and, for example, one of the most incapable senior manager-expatriate I've ever saw in my country is British. I guess somebody in UK might have been really happy to have him overseas. But I don't hold this against the Brits ;) They are truly a great nation. On Turkey and EU - I can't say they deserve more or less the EU-membership. It's really a complex topic and AFAIK both France and Germany, have huge reservations. (BTW I don't think slogans about multiparty democracy really mean anything in the real geopolitical play between the world powers. Your own American experience shows that just two parties are enough and they are both at the mercy of the Federal Reserve - a private banking money-printing institution! - internally, and do more or less the same thing as international state policy, externally). It even might amuse you that Russia and Turkey currently are in very good international economic and political relations (despite some rethorics). Russia is building several! nuclear power reactors in Turkey and they enjoy also huge mutual benefitial trade in other sectors - construction industry, tourism, gas, agriculture, etc. However strange it might seem to you, actually Russia plays a certain interesting role in the modern economic development of Turkey. Things are just not black-and-white and defy simplistic explanations.