notwithstanding her geographic location greece is un european in in article may vax bham ac uk ivrissimtzis vax bham ac uk writes turkey may be more underdeveloped if you wish but that was not the issue funny you should mention that s the whole point paliks invariably miss source united nations human development report annual output per person in dollars adjusted to purchasing power parity turkiye greece and chile are in the same category that is source international economics theory and policy by paul r krugman and maurice obstfeld harper collins publishers second edition in terms of annual output per person in dollars adjusted to purchasing power parity greece is in the same category with turkiye indeed greek governments have enormous problems to tackle the economy is in shambles corruption is rampant air pollution is in outrageous dimensions state sponsored terrorism is the name of the game and infrastructure is decaying another insightful article in the new york times sunday april exposes the dirty linen of greece and describes her as the pariah of the european community the article reports that with un european antics greece uses the community as a cash register she squanders and at times even steals the european tax payers money for political featherbedding at home the principal members of the community admit that it was a mistake to accept greece to the european community this affirmation is testimony to the fact that notwithstanding her geographic location greece is un european in mentality and attitude indeed during the last years turkiye registered a great success with regard to economic restructuring a sound economy ready to be integrated to the world economies has emerged succeeding to the faltering one witnessed in the s just years ago greece used to export double as much as turkiye did now inversely turkiye s overall exports exceed by far that of greece as far as the tourism incomes are concerned we are witnessing the same phenomenon the governments in turkiye have put a particular emphasis on the infrastructure investments rather than investing in world terrorist organizations thereby solving this issue completely indeed in the s it was out of the question to conduct a telephone call from eastern anatolia to the west nowadays this is not the case at all and in a far remote town even in a village you may have at any time a long distance call to any given country however the same could not be applied to greece in fact it is not so easy in athens to have a trunk call to germany round the clock and if you happen to be in the greek islands then your chance will be pretty slim therefore it would not be an exaggeration to argue that turkiye is far ahead of greece in regard to telecommunication facilities greece by virtue of its full membership has enjoyed all advantages of the ec obtaining huge grants and extensive subsidies turkiye having no access at all to similar financial supports has nevertheless managed to create a better economy which enabled it to produce consecutive current accounts surplus over the last two years as such turkiye deserves to be the only country in its region having permanent current accounts surplus serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
