how are turkey,iran,and israel differrent from other countries in southwest asia?
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For starters, the location.\nLanguage, Culture, Demographics, Government...everything about those countries are almost different.
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Turkey has been occupied by the Turks since about 1200 AD. The Turks were fearsome warriors who also conquered southern Europe, the Middle East, Egypt, Tunis, Libya and Algeria. Their empire, The Ottoman Empire, lasted until the end of WW1, when it fell apart. The British and the French occupied most of its territories. Turkey itself went through a revolution inspired by the army, and Ataturk established Turkey as a modern country with a modern, secular constitution.\nTurkey has always been a Muslim country. However, the state is adamantly secular, which creates great tension in Turkish society. Turkey has significant problems with certain minorities such as the Kurds, and the Greeks and Turks hate each other.\nTurkey is very mountainous and scenic. Turks are quite open to Americans and travel there is safe and inexpensive. Just don't violate the drug laws!
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they are both not christian turkey has violent islamic background.
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only 4 of the 57 muslim nations on this planet recognize the one jewish state of israel. It is simple intollerance and hatred. IN the case of iran, it is a theocratic dictatorship, that diverts its peoples attention from their dire prediciment and living conditions and makes an enemy of of a small nation over 1000 miles away
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This is one of the things that is such as problem. Israel and Iran and other countries primarily get their material from within their boarders so they dont have anyrestrictions, this is one of the reasons that the United States is so scared about theocracies such as Iran could do to us.
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Go to the middle east
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Britain ruled it since WWI when they won it from Turkey, which was then the Ottoman Empire (i.e. Lawrence of Arabia). Actually Israel never existed in modern times prior to 1947. The area the British held under an imperial system was loosely called Trans-Jordan or Palestine and included present day Israel, Jordan and Iraq. \n\nThe Ottoman Turks dominated it from the locals and Egyptians and Arabs who fought over it with the Crusaders. The Crusaders fought various Islamic powers out of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad for control. The Islamic powers took it from the Byzantine Empire who inherited from the Roman Empire. Prior to that there was finally the most recent Jewish state called Israel.
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Every country in the middle east will have a different channel or company that have those rights. Which country are you asking about?
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Good question. Jordan, Syria, and Iran.
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to start with, domes, mosques, Bosforo, Marmara, Pamukale, part in Europe and part in Asia. all people talking turkish not turke
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Why is part of Western world worried bout Iran developing it?\nTake a start from Israel and keep asking questions from there onwards.
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Wikipedia has a fairly balanced article on the region.\nYour best bet would be to look up individual nations, the CIA factbook is actually pretty good (and surprisingly objective for a government source)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East\nhttp://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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Damascus\n\nSyria (Arabic: سورية), or Souria (Arabic:سوريا), is a country in the Middle East. It borders Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. Israel occupies the Golan Heights in the southwest of the country; a dispute with Turkey over the Hatay Province now seems to have subsided. Historically, Syria has often been taken to include the territories of Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and parts of Jordan, but excluding the Jazira region in the north-east of the modern Syrian state. In this historic sense, the region is also known as Greater Syria or by the Arabic name Bilad.\n\n\nThe name Syria comes from the ancient Greek name for the land of Aram at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Arabia to the south and Cilicia to the north, stretching inland to include Mesopotamia, and having an uncertain border to the northeast that Pliny the Elder describes as including from west to east Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene, "formerly known as Assyria" (N.H. 5.66). By Pliny's time, however, this larger Syria had been divided into a number of provinces under the Roman Empire (but politically independent from each other): Judaea (or "Judea" and later renamed Palestine in 135 AD-the region corresponding to the modern states of Israel and Jordan and the Palestinian territories) in the extreme southwest, Phoenicia corresponding to Lebanon, with Damascena to the inland side of Phoenicia, Coele-Syria (or "Hollow Syria") south of the Eleutheris river, and Mesopotamia.\n\n\nSyria has fourteen governorates, or muhafazat (singular: muhafazah). A governor, whose appointment is proposed by the minister of the interior, approved by the cabinet, and announced by executive decree, heads each governorate. The governor is assisted by an elected provincial council. Note that parts of the Quneitra governorate is under Israeli occupation since 1967.
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Sunnis are a religious faction of Islam. They make up 90% of all Muslim adherents worldwide. Shiites are basically the other ten percent. Shiites differ from the Sunnis in that tyhey believe that a different caliphate (from the more historically important Sunni one) was the true caliphate - the one begun by Mohammed's grandson, Imam Ali.\n\nThere are other slight differences. Somewhat more like some Christians, Shiites may venerate certain saints and martyrs, and keep vigil at their tombs.\n\nKurds have nothing to do with this religious distinction. Kurds are Sunni muslims. They are instead an ethnic minority. Why they are refered to differently when you watch CNN is because they are the one large population group in Iraq who are not Arabs. They have a different language, history, and customs. They are also a large minority (an often oppressed one) in neighbouring Turkey...
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in some countries like iran, korea, pakistan etc. but no negative effect to environment in israel, america, and other imperialist country.
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Israel is a country in the middle east that was created by an UN declaration in 1947, and which declared its independence in 1948.\n\nThere has never been a country called Palestine- the omans renamed the province of Judah to Palestina after the Bar Kochba revolt to punish the Jews- since they knew from Jewish history that the philistines had been a foe of the Jews.  The are passed through various hands- sometimes retaining the name, at other times being renamed.  During the time of the Ottoman Empire it was acually divided into numerous administrative districts and had no single name.  \n\nAfter the British displaced the Ottomans- the area was known as the Trans-Jordan and ruled by a British mandate.  The area of Transjordan included Syria, Lebonon and Jordan, as well as the are then xcalled British Palestine.\n\nThe UN mandate divided the area into two states- one for the Jews, the other for the native Arabs who had taken the label "Palestinians" around 1920 or so.  Unfortunately- when Israel was declared five Arab armies invaded Israel- and when unsuccesful in destroying Israel occupied the land set aside for the Palestinians and turned them into refugees.\n\nIn the modern era Israel has active Peace Treaties with Egypt and Jordan- and the active conflict in the region is between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that has been given limited control over the Gaza and Westbak, and which will be the government of a future Palestinians state.
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Well,not Europe for sure..Southwest Asia.