Re: Turks was: Another political question

Glenn M Wilson wrote:

>BTW, Brian, if no one else has said this:  Damn good idea, this could
be
>fun.
>
>Run with the ball, Brian!

Thanks, I will/am.  I've even looked into figs for them.  I have a good
base 
of figs for DSII, but am still getting started on FT, and it may be
years 
before I add SG to my collection (The Warzone Bauhaus figs looked like a

good start for a Turkish force, especially if I file the Pickelhaub off 
their helmets).  I like some of the B4 Narn & Centauri figs, but I'm 
guessing the fleet will be a mix of a few first-generation Turk designs,

along with a lot of stuff bought from other countries.	(Confession time
- 
one of the MAIN reasons for my earlier desire to play an NAC splinter is

that I like English, Celtic, & American culture, but HATE the NAC ship
figs 
from an esthetic viewpoint.  The NSL & Krav'vak ships are much more
bitchin' 
LOOKING).

I will need to come up with some ship names.  So far the easy/obvious
ones 
are things like the Attaturk, Ankara, Istanbul, Gallipoli, Bosphorous. 
I'm 
thinking of giving one ofe the troop transports the nickname among the
Turks 
of "Dolmas" (pronounced Dolmish), which is a Turkish food and also a
sort of 
minibus/Taxi in Istanbul - the most appropriately NAMED form of public 
transportation I've ever encountered (Dolmas is Turkish for "stuffed").

>From the write-up point of view:  Unless good Mr. Tuffley himself
states 
otherwise, I'm going to assume Turkey is NOT part of the IF, so they'll
be 
on Earth as well as in space.  This also means I won't have to
automatically 
be an enemy of the IF, and gives me more leeway in picking
friends/enemies 
(The most obvious enemies if I'm ok with the IF seem to be FSE, Romanov 
Heggies, maybe ESU.  Again, the powers we'd probably favor, either for 
sentimental or pragmatic reasons, include NAC, OU, NSL.  It could be 
conceivable that we'd even have fairly friendly relations with powers
that 
don't get along with each other).  I'm incorporationg the Sufis, as well
as 
the suggestion from Karl that relations with the Kurds have improved. 
Maybe 
a free state with protectorate status.....

As for a flag, whether still in Turkey or based in space, I see no
reason to 
modify the current Turkish flag.  It has traditional value, and also 
incorporates images appropriate fore a space-faring nation.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

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