Comments by "" (@danieleyre8913) on "Could Turkey Actually Join the EU?" video.
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@Emilechen Good lord you are an ignorant person with a very limited view of the world.
Most philosophers were Greek and lived in classical times. Western Europe was only at the vanguard of progress between the mid 17th century and the mid 20th century. Prior to that; it was a backwater with most progress since about 500CE unto the 18th century occurring in the Mediterranean basin; Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Iberians and (*shock horror*j Ottomans. And it wasn’t in isolation; there was a lot of exchange with Persia, Arabia, the Indian subcontinent and even China. Europe’s enlightenment was built from the foundations of the Mediterranean, which itself was based upon Mesopotamia and Persia.
Western Europe has been playing catch-up since 1945. What you attribute was all due to periodical economic prosperity. And Germany and Italy didn’t even exist as sovereign nations until 1870 and 1861 respectively.
Britain is no longer in the EU and probably won’t be joining again or a couple of decades. Most of the EU are not those four nations you mentioned but nations such as in Eastern Europe, southern Europe, Scandinavia, etc.
You are clearly very poorly educated and narrow minded and have a backward understanding of anything. There is no such thing as “European identity”. Turkey is in Europe both geographically and culturally. It occupies most of the former Hellenistic world. It’s no less “Europe” than the Balkans (which it partially situated in) and probably more European than Armenia and Georgia. There’s no absolute defined barrier to where Europe ends, Turkey along with Armenia are both Middle eastern and European nations. Greece is almost in the Middle East.
Oh and “Turko-Iranic” is something relevant to IRAN (Persia), not to Turkey. Because Iran is home to minorities and much heritage of Turkmen and Azeris who have the same central Asian ancient ancestors as the Ottoman Turks who gradually conquered the Byzantine empire and created Turkey. But Turks are not the same thing as even Turkomen & Azeris let alone Iranians, they have little in common let alone are some common culture. Turks are a mixture of those aforementioned Turks, Greeks, Armenians and dozens of other people and civilisations that occupies Anatolia over the centuries.
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