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Turks are by no means a saint, after all they used to run a hugely successful empire for centuries but the way they governed was much different that the western ones and that's why doesn't translate 1 to 1 at all. Many of that culture was transferred to modern day Turkey and many was lost and changed but the gist is that it was very different(not better or worse). When France finally let the women elect and be elected, that was 30 years after Turks did it. In the 50s Turks were like "Those French showed big progress in women's rights, good for them!". Turks were over the women's political rights since generations but Turks had very different problems than the French.

It's simply impossible to think in analogies when thinking about nations. It's not even misleading, it's completely wrong.

Eastern Europeans were a part of the Ottoman empire during the colonial age but feel free to point out about that African country which used to be a Bulgarian colony for example. I think you should go into details, I'm very curious about the colonies of Easter European nations.



Polish Haitians ? (edit: for your curiosity only)


Is this a question or are you trying to claim something? Why are you talking as if we both know something and you are trying to make me spill the beans?




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