Is Turkey a middle Eastern country in your opinion?
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I was in Istanbul a few days ago. It is still very different from any western city I have been to.
The vendors of street shops and restaurants are ALL men, not any woman.
Even staff members of the four-star hotel I stayed in are all men. Only a cleaner was a woman.
Many people wear conservative clothes, although many are dressed the same way as in the west too.
They sell “Chanel” and “LV” products on the streets. Such fake products can be seen everywhere.
In the hotel, I heard loud chanting from a mosque an hour before dawn, every day.
Many people do business with tourists in an “aggressive” way. A lot of bargaining.
I have turkish friends here, they don't like being called West Asian or Middle Eastern or Asian. they will always assume they are Europeans like Greeks or Italians.
In Indonesia , people who don't know that turkish people definitely say "Bule " because their white skin is different from other arabs or middle eastern people who tend to have dark skin and slightly different looks.
What people assume or like to be called for themselves, is different from what they could be in real life.
And skin color has nothing to do with being middle eastern. Syrian president is more fair than Turkish one
It depends on who you ask, Turkey seems to be a racially diverse country
The question is not in terms of "race", for which nobody cares, nor what Turkish people themselves think (though the second one at least is an interesting issue)
The question is not in terms of "race", for which nobody cares, nor what Turkish people themselves think (though the second one at least is an interesting issue)
The point is that Turkey is not middle eastern or european. It's a very mixed country that is geographically located in a global "crossroads" of sorts
Western Turkey definitely has Mediterranean/Eastern Block aspects seeing it literally boarders Greece & Bulgaria.
Eastern Turkey on the other hand is for sure Middle Eastern but not in the colloquial media sensationalized way.
There hasn't even been an Eastern Block for 34 years.
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