ShelleyS,
As far as I remember from your previous posts you have prejudices about Turks. I believe most of the Europeans have similar thoughts.
According to me main reasons are ;
1- Turkish people are muslim. Europeans think that Europe is christain.
2- History : In Ottoman times we were a super power in Europe and was a threat for Europe. We invaded all the Balkans, Hungary, some parts of Slovakia and Ukraine and sieged Vienna two times. Turks ruled Balkans for 500 years. Balkans become main land for Turks like Anatolia. All the christain countires allied lots of times in order to remove Turks from Europe. Millions of people from both sides killed.
Europe and Turkey is like thesis anti-thesis.
3- There are 3.000.000 Turks living in Europe. 2.000.000 of them are living in Germany ( 500.000 of them are Kurds). Most of them came to Europe 40 years ago as workers. They were all uneducated villagers and never left their village before. It was even diffucult for them to adopt if they move to a city in Turkey.
They were not accepted good in Europe and as a reaction they try to protect their rural culture. Hatred in Germans brought hatred in Turks.
Europeans think all the Turks are like the ones living in Europe now. I think most of them are not ahead of Turks living in the villages of Turkey. This means this is not their fault.
Personelly, I don't want Turkey enter EU. Because I believe we don't need this EU.
As far as I remember from your previous posts you have prejudices about Turks. I believe most of the Europeans have similar thoughts.
According to me main reasons are ;
1- Turkish people are muslim. Europeans think that Europe is christain.
2- History : In Ottoman times we were a super power in Europe and was a threat for Europe. We invaded all the Balkans, Hungary, some parts of Slovakia and Ukraine and sieged Vienna two times. Turks ruled Balkans for 500 years. Balkans become main land for Turks like Anatolia. All the christain countires allied lots of times in order to remove Turks from Europe. Millions of people from both sides killed.
Europe and Turkey is like thesis anti-thesis.
3- There are 3.000.000 Turks living in Europe. 2.000.000 of them are living in Germany ( 500.000 of them are Kurds). Most of them came to Europe 40 years ago as workers. They were all uneducated villagers and never left their village before. It was even diffucult for them to adopt if they move to a city in Turkey.
They were not accepted good in Europe and as a reaction they try to protect their rural culture. Hatred in Germans brought hatred in Turks.
Europeans think all the Turks are like the ones living in Europe now. I think most of them are not ahead of Turks living in the villages of Turkey. This means this is not their fault.
Personelly, I don't want Turkey enter EU. Because I believe we don't need this EU.