The Saudis need an atatürk and I hope their new prince can be one

It's like the Saudi's are trying to become a little bit more Liberal

but Turkey went away. Turkey was almost in the EU and they turned the other way

Haha

brutal

What do you mean Turkey turned away <:GWfroggyBlobWokeThink:398570327942365195>

not cool

We fulfilled the requirements

The other countries were accepting us

yes

The balkans of all people were welcoming us

^

And the Germany and France made their "Turkey and islam are not parts of europe" speeches

And vetoed our entry

Causing our political class to descend into chaos

And the collapse of our economy

Which erdogan used to rise to power <:GWfroggyBlobWokeThink:398570327942365195>

you are woke as fuck mate

***ULTRA WOKE***

you were nearly there

Yes

So fuck Merkel

Fuck sarkozy

For what they did to my country <:GWfroggyBlobWokeThink:398570327942365195>

but yeah that went wrong

we tried

I'm not sure what went wrong

but something made it collapse like a house of cards

Yee the veto did because we adapted both our parliament and economy to the european system and the single market specifically

Imagine a party campaigning for an EU entry for 20 years

And doing everything to join

Only to then meet the requirements and be vetoed in

What that does to their popularity

The CHP lost like 20% the election after

The MHP lost 50 out of 53 seats

The kurdish party 30 out out 50

And in came Erdogan's AKP to fill that void

Cause and Effect

Not to mention having an economy based on the single market but not actually in the single market made our currency shrivel and die

the saudi "reforms" and "opening up towards the west" has been little more than show. They're still funding the spread of their idiotic superstition abroad.

well they are still at 'war' with Yemen