Turkey (country)

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is a country whose music is like a man having a vasectomy without anaesthtic to the sound of frantic sitar playing.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anaesthtic to the sound of frantic sitar playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

is a barbarian culture ignorantly holding in its possession one half of the history of the whole world.

The barbarian power, which has been for centuries seated in the very heart of the Old World, which has in its brute clutch the most famous countries of classical and religious antiquity and many of the most fruitful and beautiful regions of the earth; and, which, having no history itself, is heir to the historical names of Constantinople and Nicaea, Nicomedia and Caesarea, Jerusalem and Damascus, Nineva and Babylon, Mecca and Bagdad, Antioch and Alexandria, ignorantly holding in its possession one half of the history of the whole world.

is a barbarian power which has been for centuries seated in the very heart of the Old World, and which has in its brute clutch the most famous countries of classical and religious antiquity and many of the most fruitful and beautiful regions of the earth.

is a country which, since before World War I was known as the sick man of Europe; and now it is almost terminal.

Before World War I, Turkey was known as the sick man of Europe. Now it is almost terminal.

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