Seeing how TURKEY has come down the road to being a democracy and is even a member of N.A.T.O and gets along with its other EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS and wants to join the EU. Why cant the ordinary IRANIANS take a few lessons from the TURKS .
2006-09-03 14:16:39 · 6 answers · asked by SPEAK UP WAKE UP 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
First you would have to be dealing with flexible, adaptable, reasonable people. They are none of these things. They haven't changed in thousands of years. They will, but it will still be a verrrrrry slow process.
The middle east is so tied up in hatred of one another and now us. I doubt if any of us will live to see any change.
Their religion is not a warm and fuzzy religion.
It is a vengeful belief. These are people that brainwash their children to kill themselves for whatever unknown reason they dream up. Families and Neighbors protect murderers and terrorists. How does anyone deal with people like this??
2006-09-03 14:30:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They can and did. Prior to 1953 Iran was a Democracy. Their democratically elected Prime Minister was even TIME magazine's Man Of The Year. Then in 1953 the US and UK destabilized the government and imposed the Shah on Iran. We were worried about Iran nationalizing their oil production and not being sufficiently pro-American during the Cold War. Check out the book: All The Shah's Men.
2006-09-03 21:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by Charles D 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Democracy is the deceitful practice of permissive wrong doing by "majority rules".When it's actually a small segment of the population who seeks to misuse the dissatisfied and ignorant to obtain whatever they desire.Not that I side with Iran, but Turkey is not the example for any type of society where the Muslims are the majority.
2006-09-03 21:26:51 · answer #3 · answered by Daddy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have my doubts, Any democracy made inside that spiritual pit on earth cannot last, our troops may eventually be pulled out and Iraq left to fend for itself.
There will be still more Kamakaze attacks and assasinations too.
How then can we help Iran too?
2006-09-03 21:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iran is a fundamentalist nation, Turkey isn't a theocracy.
2006-09-03 21:18:35 · answer #5 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radical muslims are slowly gaining a political foothold in Turkey. Their current gov't is far more anti-western and anti-U.S. than it has in some time.
2006-09-03 21:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by thealligator414 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋