Turks, Which Neighbor Country (including People) Do You Like the Most? Why?

Turks, which neighbor country (including people) do you like the most? Why?

Absolutely Azerbaijan . Land of brothers

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Did Kurds try their best to save the Armenians from the genocide perpetrated by the Turks?

Unfortunately no. Some did risk a lot to help. But unfortunately they were the henchmen who did a lot of the Turks dirty work. They were second class citizens to the Turks as well. The Turks could of easily turned on them as well at the time, exactly like what they are doing to them today.

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Will Turks be sleazy towards a British girl on holiday in Turkey?

You should respect Turks, because you seem not to realize that they are more educated than many Brits... I was horrified when I saw groups of British tourists men coming to Brazil or Dominican Republic and looking for some easy girls to abuse...It's a dirty attitud... So, who is dirty ?...

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Do you think the Turks should take the world back from Americans, because they are ill-using it?

Absolutely right! Your words are so artistic ;) Ottoman Empire was the richest and strongest Empire that has existed in world.We could not defense ourselves because everything happened so fast! We bacame the world no :1 in only 300 years. We raised fast,and fell fast. But Turkey is rising again,the grand-sons of Ottoman's.

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Are there Turks in Turkey, Iran, India, China, Central Asia, etc who never followed Islam but identify themselves as Turks?

The short answer is yes.The long answer is a little more intricate though. Except three "Turk=Muslim" conceptions, Turks have identified themselves as Turks without any religion hint (even those who specifically want to stress on religion today, identify themselves as "Turk and Muslim" using both terms distinctively), before and after nation-states age.The three thought frames leaning on "Turk=Muslim" rhetoric are;Medieval European conventional wisdom; rooted on Seljuk resistance against crusades and rise of Seljuk & Ottoman supremacy in Muslim hinterland that coincided with fall of Arab dynasties. For long ages, Europeans called every Muslim as Turk.Ottoman tribal pressure on other competing clans; beginning especially from the Battle of Ankara, where Timur of Barlas heavily defeated Bayezid of Osman, Ottomans lived with an inbuilt paranoia against other Turk clans in possible dynastic competition until they finally managed to fully subdue them. In Ottoman hinterland the word 'Turk' had been made a pejorative term to define ignorant and stubborn peasants. The term Turk, between 15th and 19th Centuries, was practically a forbidden identity in Ottoman land.19. Century Wahhabi propaganda; Basically a 'back to roots' Arab ummah union movement against Ottoman supremacy, Wahhabi movement also tried to gain commoners of Turk ancestry during the formation of nation states. Today Turkish Islamists still readily buy this discourse but do not come up with anything satisfactory to support it when asked. In short, today no one except those under Wahhabi - Salafist propaganda impression in Turkish speaking communities regard being Muslim as an primary or integral identifier

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What's the difference on Greeks in Instabul and Turks in Greece?

All of the answers above are so hateful and I would like to write an aggressive message too but instead I am going to share a memory of mine. So I think I was in 8th grade because I remember being tired and depressive(OKS) and we were in our butcher's shop- our butcher became more like a family friend- and these three old ladies came in. They were the kind of people that you would like to be around, loud, funny, interesting.. They had a very thick Rum accent and they were a hilarious!! I didnt even know their names but I laughed my head off that day. I dont even remember the jokes.. :) My mom randomly became friends with them, they started to talk about their flight back from Greece. So after they got their meat and left (and after I catched my breath) our butcher explained my mom who these ladies were. He said that they were sisters, and they came back every year(half the year) to live in their old home. They apparently missed their home too much so even though in past they were forced to move to Greece, they come back every year to Istanbul because they miss it.. there are also Turks who visit Greece regularly and miss their home in Greece also.. I used the word "force" up there which might have offended some but what people should remember is that the immigration in 1955 was a two-wayed journey and both sides hurt and got hurt.. I know this doesnt really answer the question above but sometimes people just have to be positive and forgive and forget and move on or there is never going to be change and we are going to get stuck in the pains of the past..