Johannes Madel wrote:

(Snip)

turkey ( a very undemocratic country, but it was an important border to
communism)

I beg your pardon! Turkey is and has been a republican parliamentary democracy
since Ataturk founded it in 1923. It offers its citizens universal suffrage at
age 18, and I believe it recently had (and perhaps still has) a female prime
minister.

George Z.