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Re:An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct... by Ngunyan on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:18PM (#16403073)
Turkey is an Asian country. Just because they own a slice of land in Southeastern Europe does not make them European. Otherwise, Spain would be African, France would be Latin American, and Egypt would be Asian.
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Re:An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct... by jcranmer on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:04PM (#16404012)
Istanbul is (by far) the largest city of Turkey and is mostly on the European continent. If you include the coasts of the Aegean (that were historically Greek-speaking), then you get several more major population centers. And historically, the Ottoman Empire was very much a major European power, controlling as it did most of the Balkans.

If Cyprus can claim to be a European country, then so can Turkey.

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