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Hang on - how come Namibia's not on that list? Don't they have a US military base halfway up their coastline?

I think you're confusing the US with China.

The US doesn't have bases there, but China is interested in building a naval base in Namibia:
http://www.namibian.com.na/ind...
http://mgafrica.com/article/20...
http://www.turkishweekly.net/2...

Erdogan even sent his daugters to a US university because they were allowed to wear their headscarf there. In Turkey they would have had to take it off.

Turkey is good at exporting corruption. Sibel Edmonds spilled the dirt on their efforts to bribe US congressmen like Dennis Hastert to deny genocide status to Armenians and help Turkey become a nuclear state

You raise a fascinating question to bring up the next time the topic is the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Britain, NATO and Turkey (1959-1965)

In 1962, during the Cuba crisis Khrushchev sent a letter to the White House on 27 October. He sought to draw a parallel between Cuba and Turkey: missiles in Cuba would be withdrawn in return for the withdrawal of American missiles in Turkey; furthermore, the Soviet Union would pledge not to invade Turkey if the United States would make a similar pledge about Cuba[4]. This demand was based more on politics than on security or military grounds. The US had already suggested to Turkey in 1961 that she withdraw the Jupiter missiles. The Americans thought the missiles in Turkey old and useless[5]. The Turkish military leaders did not agree with this plan and they argued that these missiles were important for the defence and security of Turkey.

You might be interested in Soviet planning for nuclear war against Europe.

The Ankara based tank; International Strategic Research Organisation (ISRO), published their European Union Perception Survey 3 (129k PDF), November 6, 2006.

The survey's first qestion and the results were:

• Do you support Turkey's European Union (EU) membership?
• Yes % 50
• No % 45
• I have no idea % 5

What I surmise is that many Turks would prefer to be in the EU, if all things were equal in their minds, but they consider the current price of entry too high.

Just what do you base this claim upon? Turkey is a democracy. It has its shortcomings. Care to get into an argument about a two-party stranglehold's effect on democratic processes?

Turkey is vehemently opposed to being forced to admit to Armenian genocide a century ago. At the same time, as many Turkish journalists have pointed out, France's stand against Turkey's admission into the EU because of this is certainly lest than virtuous, given that they have never owned up to their own more recent history in Algeria.

The PKK is a group recognised by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. After its leader Abdullah Ocalan, was captured by Turkish Special Forces in Kenya, many governments and groups protested his trial as unfair. The main reasons for this was that the trial was held in the Ankara State Security Court, which is ruled by a three judge panel in which a military officer is included as one judge, and that after his arrest, Ocalan was unable to be reached by attorneys for ten days. Compare and contrast these judicial flaws with the obscene US treatment of detainees, and the Guantanamo Show Trials in which any defendant allegations of torture are considered classified information?

In regards to the YouTube incident mentioned; it was quickly ruled as an unconstitutional act by a Turkish court, and its import was greatly inflated in the Western media. Read a Turkish editorial on the matter:

Barin Kayaoglu, "Defending YouTube or Defending Atatürk?", Journal of Turkish Weekly, 17 March 2007

Try expanding your knowledge, instead of depending upon others' prejudices for you bigotry.

Just what do you base this claim upon? Turkey is a democracy. It has its shortcomings. Care to get into an argument about a two-party stranglehold's effect on democratic processes?

Turkey is vehemently opposed to being forced to admit to Armenian genocide a century ago. At the same time, as many Turkish journalists have pointed out, France's stand against Turkey's admission into the EU because of this is certainly lest than virtuous, given that they have never owned up to their own more recent history in Algeria.

The PKK is a group recognised by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. After its leader Abdullah Ocalan, was captured by Turkish Special Forces in Kenya, many governments and groups protested his trial as unfair. The main reasons for this was that the trial was held in the Ankara State Security Court, which is ruled by a three judge panel in which a military officer is included as one judge, and that after his arrest, Ocalan was unable to be reached by attorneys for ten days. Compare and contrast these judicial flaws with the obscene US treatment of detainees, and the Guantanamo Show Trials in which any defendant allegations of torture are considered classified information?

In regards to the YouTube incident mentioned; it was quickly ruled as an unconstitutional act by a Turkish court, and its import was greatly inflated in the Western media. Read a Turkish editorial on the matter:

Barin Kayaoglu, "Defending YouTube or Defending Atatürk?", Journal of Turkish Weekly, 17 March 2007

Try expanding your knowledge, instead of depending upon others' prejudices for you bigotry.