Only Greeks do that, and i never take it as an insult.
Turks are disliked because we have many dumb people who are worthy to be despised, i also dislike a large percentage of Turks and if i were a European i would also dislike Turks.
Every day some of my countrymen make me facepalm and feel...
What about them? Europeans don't associate Attila and Mongols with Turkish people, in fact they deny we have any relations with them.
Most Europeans think Turkish people are some native middle-eastern people related to Arabs, and clueless about origins of Turks.
This is the craziest thing i have ever heard, Turks are hated in the Christian world because of history and the fact that Turks are Muslims. If Turks were Christians then the history would be different and this time Muslims would become Anti-Turks.
If we were Christian, we would be culturally European and friends of Europeans, this way there would be no hatred. Turks would most likely be considered white by Westerners therefore it would leave out the racism issue.
Muslim countries (including Turkey) are in by no means capabable of cooperating or competing with West. I do not view this as a struggle between West vs Muslims but Pragmatism vs Romanticism. Muslim countries should focus on developing themselves at first, and its doable, as long as people are...
I agree that West will never accept Turkey, and i wasn't proposing to join them.
However, they are the developed nations and we should learn from them, otherwise muslims will be stuck to this fate.
I would rather idolize west, and it is one of the main reasons why i'm sceptical about cooperation with other Muslim countries, they can easily misdirect Turkey from progress.
Turkey should focus on improving itself. Unions don't always function well, and in this case it definetly wouldn't. I don't want to see Turkey uniting with any country.
These people aren't Turks.