Ahiska Turks(dismissed from Kirim and exiled to Siberia), Cechens(persecuted ), Krygizs,Tajiks...(Asia Turks)(have been tried to be assimilated in terms of religion and culture and it is still carrying on, Russia was a power with its natural resources but after the dissolution of Soviets the reserves remained in the areas of these and Russia is trying to keep them in and impeding the improvement of relations by Turkey and other Turks) and so on. I have much more things to say about Russia but it is off topic as you know. If you wish we can lead to a new topic about this matter.

To anon, I dont think Europeans are welcome to Turkey.The leaders are sitting on the fence. They both dont want to lose Turkey and dont want to accept such a big country. So they are delaying the date steadily.By the way, according to polls from here ,Turkey, the trust of people to union and their desire for membership are plummeting dramatically. It seems that the hypocrisy of EU will induce the goverment to seek for new ways.

Well, Janyssary, I see you like Russia a lot.  But sush feelings usually prevent people from looking at the facts more or less objectively... I am not going to start a new topic and argue there as I don't have so much time to narrate you the world and Russia's history. If you are really interested in that, you can learn it yourself (by the way, don't forget to analyse Russia's minerals map then ).

Anonymous wrote:

I think, the eu is going to fall, what's the point of the eu?  The countries that belong to eu have different goals, they're dealing with different problems, have different priorities. The state of their economic is pretty diffrenet. They are shared by language and culture. The US is a completely different story, and , even though some people compare the eu to the usa, are many differences, and few similarities (if any). People in America in 18th century had their common goal, they were looking from freedom, they came from countries ruled by monarchs, some of them were opressed etc. They were all new in America. The situation in Europe is completely different. If Israel (a country in the middle of Europe?) or Turkey joints the eu maybe we should rename it for th WU ( world union), and invite all the countires in world to jont the eu, than we will have what we had before the eu was established.