Munin
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lol, that s a good one ... did you know that a lot of Turks are actually "white man"? (This is a result of the european conquests in Turkisch history) If you want to make a racist comment, please make one that makes sense.
Turkey would only be producing shit if it were not for its trade relations with the west (which still consists of the biggest consumer markets of the world)
We neglected the other markets. Now we care for those markets, which is possible due to end of Cold War and improved relations between Muslims and Turkey. Most of those markets have no general trade rules (WTO membership) we first had to ease political relations to ease exports to there.
What a qualified statement from an incompetent mouth.(...) Turkey would only be producing shit if it were not for its trade relations with the west
Your graphic is from 2006. So far in 2010 about 25% of Turkish exports have gone to immediate Arab neighbourhood. Europe faces crisis, we have to diversify our markets, with that also the political engagement with those markets.
Turkey makes Newsweek cover
All the European editions of leading international news magazine Newsweek came out with a common cover: Turkey rises.
Those markets aren't rich consumer markets like Europe and the US, you again fail to see my point. My point is that European and the US consumer markets made the Turkish state richer by allowing it good trade relations with them, just like Europe and the US made China rich by allowing it to have good trade relations with them.
The richest and bigger consumer markets are in Western Countries: it s as simple as that, attaturk understood this and as a result he made Turkey a member of the Western world by making it a modern secular and industrialised country. This is the reason why Turkey has prospered so much since his rule. If Attaturk would have been a extremist religious muslimruler then things would have been much different.
I agree that it is smart to diversify your exports, but you can not deny that the European trade of the previous decades is what made Turkey to what it is today. It s also the reason why Turkey wanted to be in the European Union (not sure if it is still the case)