DF, good to see you back. I hope it was fun. Any new tattoos?
Turkey has to be either a European country or a Middle East country. They seem to have decided to be part of Europe. I think it would be better to bring them in, but it's your choice. And you can tell Chirac that the last time France decided to get involved with Mexico, they put that pantomime emperor Maximilian against the wall and shot him. (Mexico won't admit it, but we had something to do with that. Your Napoleon III took over Mexico because of some bad debts. We were heavily engaged in killing each other -- nobody does it better -- so we couldn't prevent it. When our Civil War ended, we had a million men under arms, the first iron-clad navy in the world, and a bad attitude. Reinforcing poor Max came to be seen as a bad idea.)
Anyway, the Turks are at least as European as the Greeks, give or take a moustache.