Today in History – Oct 3, 2009 – The Turkic Council is formed by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey
Ok so when most Americans hear Turkey they think first of the Thanksgiving Day bird and maybe secondly the country in the Middle East. The American elementary and secondary education system spends little time on world history and when we do study world history it is usually limited to European history. We spend very little time on Mid-Eastern or Asian History, maybe we touch on China and the Mongols and the Ottoman Empire, but little else.