Turkish Culture and Society - World Affairs Council

COMPREHENSION CHECK – ANSWER KEY
1) What is the AKP’s professed goal regarding the EU? _____FULL
MEMBERSHIP_________
2) Domestic concerns have helped fuel Western European criticism of
______TURKEY______.
3) Today there are over _____THREE ____ million Turks living in Western Europe.
4) Turkish émigrés tend to be religiously and socially _____CONSERVATIVE______ and
have largely remained isolated in their host countries.
5) High ___UNEMPLOYMENT_____ in Western European nations has contributed to an
anti-Turkish backlash against workers originally invited in.
6) Since 1960, Turkey’s military has staged four _____COUPS_____ against the country’s
government.
7) One criticism of Turkey centers around the ban on wearing __HEAD SCARVES__ in
schools, universities, and certain governmental buildings.
8) What Western European nation has instituted a similar ban? _______FRANCE_______
9) A minority group in eastern Turkey that has, until recently, faced years of legal
restrictions and lack of civil rights: ____________KURDS______________
10) A separatist organization that has battled Turkish nationalist forces:
_______PKK_______
11) A separatist group and minority in Spain (an EU nation) that has also engaged in acts of
terrorism: _____BASQUES____
12) The ethnic group that has accused Turkey of committing acts of genocide against them
during World War I: ________ARMENIANS_________
13) A website devoted to Turkey’s response to these
accusations:____TALLARMENIANTALE.COM_____
14) What EU nation was responsible for acts of genocide during World War II?
______GERMANY________
15) Many Muslims around the world criticized political cartoons published in Europe that
depicted ____MUHAMMAD______ as a terrorist.
16) A divided island in the Mediterranean occupied by ethnic Greeks and ethnic Turks:
_________CYPRUS_____________
17) Germany was one of the countries in Western Europe wherein small groups of
terrorists, known as _______CELLS________ , planned and coordinated attacks on the
West.
18) Those who accuse Turkish and other Islamic émigrés of changing the character of
Europe, say this process is occurring: ________ISLAMIZATION___________
19) The Turkish group that sees itself as a defender of that nation’s democracy and
secularism: ________THE MILITARY______________
20) The two European heads of state who are vocal critics of admitting Turkey into the EU:
______NICOLAS SARKOZY__________ & _________ANGELA
MERKEL__________
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