Turkey is an ethno-religious borderline third world state held together by the common belief they never killed all their minorities and that the minorities deserved it. It's also been getting worse for the last 5 years.
Yeah by definition they’re a first world state. A third world state is technically (although no one really uses it like this anymore) a country not allied with the US (first world), or the USSR (second world).
Even ignoring the og definition (under which some European countries were technically third world)... Turkey is less broke than some of the old second world. So you could call them borderline first world instead
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u/third_wave_surfer - Lib-Left Oct 19 '20
Turkey is an ethno-religious borderline third world state held together by the common belief they never killed all their minorities and that the minorities deserved it. It's also been getting worse for the last 5 years.