I remember seeing a picture of Portuguese and Spanish children, at the border in 1986, holding EU flags that didn’t look too different from this, probably including the road and houses. Too bad I couldn’t find it in Google.
Friendly reminder that for most of the 20th century, until the 60s basically, we had a lower GDP per capita than Turkey.
I remember having a lengthy conversation with a 80 years old Belgian once about his first trip to Portugal in the 1960s, and how he couldn’t believe it was still the same country. I do know what’s he’s talking about because I used to have a legitimate cultural shock whenever dealing with my grandparents. It was as if we did not come from the same place.
Of course Turkey’s situation is a lot different from Portugal and Spain’s, but countries and history can change fast, especially if certain obstacles are removed. Ask the Iberian Peninsula, South Korea, or Japan.
Good luck with the elections Turkey! Your luck is also our luck.
Edit: found it, first page of this pdf. But there were many more photos of this event.
This is Kurdish clothing, so probably from a Kurdish-majority city.
Turkiye is a member of the Council of Europe so, yeah it’s our common flag
I visited Hasankeyf (on the Tigris, now obliterated by the İlisu Dam) at about that time. The EU had got the dam construction suspended. The locals (mostly Turkish and Kurdish, some Arab) were the most pro-EU people I’ve ever met.
They have great taste in flags.
Where are the women
Wildly upvoted because flag. I am sure the women in the photo appreciate it.
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I remember seeing a picture of Portuguese and Spanish children, at the border in 1986, holding EU flags that didn’t look too different from this, probably including the road and houses. Too bad I couldn’t find it in Google.
Friendly reminder that for most of the 20th century, until the 60s basically, we had a lower GDP per capita than Turkey.
I remember having a lengthy conversation with a 80 years old Belgian once about his first trip to Portugal in the 1960s, and how he couldn’t believe it was still the same country. I do know what’s he’s talking about because I used to have a legitimate cultural shock whenever dealing with my grandparents. It was as if we did not come from the same place.
Of course Turkey’s situation is a lot different from Portugal and Spain’s, but countries and history can change fast, especially if certain obstacles are removed. Ask the Iberian Peninsula, South Korea, or Japan.
Good luck with the elections Turkey! Your luck is also our luck.
Edit: found it, first page of this pdf. But there were many more photos of this event.
https://www.parlamento.pt/ArquivoDocumentacao/Documents/ue2006_p.pdf
This is Kurdish clothing, so probably from a Kurdish-majority city.
Turkiye is a member of the Council of Europe so, yeah it’s our common flag
I visited Hasankeyf (on the Tigris, now obliterated by the İlisu Dam) at about that time. The EU had got the dam construction suspended. The locals (mostly Turkish and Kurdish, some Arab) were the most pro-EU people I’ve ever met.
They have great taste in flags.
Where are the women
Wildly upvoted because flag. I am sure the women in the photo appreciate it.
I hope that one day you can join Europe