It is.
And all European Turks have double nationality, they can't give up Turkish nationality.
Turkish nationality means all young men have to service in the Turkish army for 3 years, it's compulsory.
It made many European Turks not wanting to be Turk.
But now all of this has changed, because of Erdogans propaganda machine.
P.S. : our friend Yetos above told in another thread Greece is spending so much for the military, while other European nations don't make the contributions they've promised to NATO
the reason for this is historical : Greece was afraid for renewal of Turkish nationalism and felt they should be able to defend themselves in case the Turkish would try to annex Greece again
not any more,
lately Turkish democracy passed the 'bargain' for military obligations,
you can serve few months, and buy the rest,
Turkey has the 2nd biggest army in NATO,
and among 4-6 position in strongest depending on the year.
The Turkish economical miracle is a strange thing,
and more complicated than we can imagine,
their main problems are 2
the different standards among 'EU certificate' and Turkish massive production
the hiden capitals and the black money or earnings,
which can easily make Turkey a very strong economical country,
yet easy to turn her to collapse.
part of the late economical miracle of Turkey was made by Iranic founds,
USA knew that and asked for Data and banking control,
amd also keep the embargo against Iran,
but Turkey did not, so they punish her few years after,
the rest about priests and imams wich are prisoners, or special guests is just the screen.
Anyway,
NATO has overpassed the H Kiss... era.
and is moving to Z. Briezinski chess mate move,
Arab spring was an end of an era, not a new start.
the chess game today is in East Europe,
Poland and Romania,
in order to achieve that they will de-industrialize S Europe and Turkey, and moved it there,
a good example was the strategic entrance of Bulgaria to EU,
Bulgaria absorved more than 300 000 working places and almost most problematic industries in Greece,
and also took 5 strong factories, among them Coca-cola, Φ fertilizers, ΒΙΑΜΥΛ bigest glugoce factory in SE Europe
in order to make a strong sourounding border to black sea for EU.
Turkish economy is a strange system,
it works like octopus, each foot is independent from other,
and while some are working good and to the right directions
some others do strange works.
in the next 2-5 years Turkish banking system will be controled,
and that is the fear of Erdogan, which is one of the most rich men in the world,
otherwise Turkey is doomed,
Either he enter under banking control by NATO banking system.
to stabilize their currency and economy.
Either they will live with other system, for example the BRICS one, or collapse.
On the other hand Turkey is and was a strategic of NATO,
borders with ex USSR, Balck sea rulling with USSR,
the most light and modern thinking Islamic country, (Kemalism)
and worked as a wall against Islam's foundamentals,
meaning Turkey of kemal worked as stabilizer among Western culture and Islamic fanatics (remember Ayatollahs, kantafi, Sandam etc)
something that today is not.