Countries of Modern Europe Survivor

[Platypus]

Vati can go now.

[Franzl]

Switzerland

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

500 priests, a Cathedral, a chapel with a pretty ceiling, and a bunch  of musems is not a real country, thus Vatican City must go.

[Hash]

Vatican City

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Albania? What is this.. "pick on all the obscure little-known poor countries because they are obscure little-known and poor" day?

Republic of Ireland o/c.  Turkey isn't a bad pick, but Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland should go pretty soon.

[big bad fab]

Albania? What is this.. "pick on all the obscure little-known poor countries because they are obscure little-known and poor" day?

Republic of Ireland o/c.  Turkey isn't a bad pick, but Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland should go pretty soon.

I think everybody has many reasons to vote (or not) for a country.
It can be historical, political, geographical, even touristic (even if it's not the place, but you're free to vote the way you want).

As it's not required to explain your vote...

For this round, I would have preferred to vote for Belgium or Luxembourg, but I wanted to save the Vatican. And even when I think about Luxembourg, it's good memories for me: fine restaurants, surprisingly good wines... OK, I stop here .

Why would be Turkey a better pick than Albania ? Or Norway or Finland, uninteresting countries, historically speaking ?
Given its history and culture, Turkey should stay for many, many rounds.

Really, in this type of survivors, you don't vote with your brain. That's the "rule".

[Edu]

I voted Albania because it's one of the few countries on this list i haven't visited and i don't really find it's history interesting.

But for instance i find the fact that Russia was ousted so fast a personal insult

[Hash]

King Zog of Albania is quite interesting.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Albania? What is this.. "pick on all the obscure little-known poor countries because they are obscure little-known and poor" day?

Republic of Ireland o/c.  Turkey isn't a bad pick, but Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland should go pretty soon.

I think everybody has many reasons to vote (or not) for a country.
It can be historical, political, geographical, even touristic (even if it's not the place, but you're free to vote the way you want).

As it's not required to explain your vote...

For this round, I would have preferred to vote for Belgium or Luxembourg, but I wanted to save the Vatican. And even when I think about Luxembourg, it's good memories for me: fine restaurants, surprisingly good wines... OK, I stop here .

Why would be Turkey a better pick than Albania ? Or Norway or Finland, uninteresting countries, historically speaking ?
Given its history and culture, Turkey should stay for many, many rounds.

Really, in this type of survivors, you don't vote with your brain. That's the "rule".

I don't care how much they pretend to be European, or if they get into the EU, Turkey is primarily an Asian country, not a European one, and that's reason enough for me to vote against it in this Survivor.

[Nhoj]

Vatican City

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Turkey is an "asian" country? Ah, discourses... (Quick everyone: Give me a non-arbitrary geographical definition of what "Europe" is?)

I want Turkey out soon because the popularity of populist nationalism, the way its government denies the Armenian Genocide and (much more importantly because the other two aren't that important to me) the annoying chauvanistic way Turks can come off on the internet, at least any self-proclaimed Turk I've ever noted (which of course may be people from Germany and England playing at ethnic identity... but I'm not taking that risk).

Albania is such a unique place in contemporary Europe that I can't help but find it interesting. Though if headlining grabbing insanity is your thing... there is always Enver Hoxha.

[petedewolfe]

Vatican

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Turkey is an "asian" country? Ah, discourses... (Quick everyone: Give me a non-arbitrary geographical definition of what "Europe" is?)

I want Turkey out soon because the popularity of populist nationalism, the way its government denies the Armenian Genocide and (much more importantly because the other two aren't that important to me) the annoying chauvanistic way Turks can come off on the internet, at least any self-proclaimed Turk I've ever noted (which of course may be people from Germany and England playing at ethnic identity... but I'm not taking that risk).

Albania is such a unique place in contemporary Europe that I can't help but find it interesting. Though if headlining grabbing insanity is your thing... there is always Enver Hoxha.

According to Columbia Encyclopedia: "Europe , 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). It is actually a vast peninsula of the great Eurasian land mass. By convention, it is separated from Asia by the Urals and the Ural River in the east; by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus in the southeast; and by the Black Sea, the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles in the south. The Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar separate it from Africa. Europe is washed in the north by the Arctic Ocean, and in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, with which the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are connected."

This definition places only a small part of Turkey- west of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus- in Europe. The vast majority of Turkey's land area and population is on the continent of Asia, thus making Turkey primarily an Asian country.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Turkey

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

Turkey .

[Electric Feel]

Turkey

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Turkey 7
Vatican City 5
Ireland 1
Switzerland 1

[bgwah]

Vatican City

[Bo]

Vatican City

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Luxembourg

[Hash]

Vatican City. Ridiculous.

[big bad fab]

Luxembourg

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Vatican City

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Turkey is an "asian" country? Ah, discourses... (Quick everyone: Give me a non-arbitrary geographical definition of what "Europe" is?)

I want Turkey out soon because the popularity of populist nationalism, the way its government denies the Armenian Genocide and (much more importantly because the other two aren't that important to me) the annoying chauvanistic way Turks can come off on the internet, at least any self-proclaimed Turk I've ever noted (which of course may be people from Germany and England playing at ethnic identity... but I'm not taking that risk).

Albania is such a unique place in contemporary Europe that I can't help but find it interesting. Though if headlining grabbing insanity is your thing... there is always Enver Hoxha.

According to Columbia Encyclopedia: "Europe , 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). It is actually a vast peninsula of the great Eurasian land mass. By convention, it is separated from Asia by the Urals and the Ural River in the east; by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus in the southeast; and by the Black Sea, the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles in the south. The Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar separate it from Africa. Europe is washed in the north by the Arctic Ocean, and in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, with which the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are connected."

This definition places only a small part of Turkey- west of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus- in Europe. The vast majority of Turkey's land area and population is on the continent of Asia, thus making Turkey primarily an Asian country.

The important part of my question was "non-arbitrary". Europe is just a pennisulla of Asia really. (Why not use the Urals-Caspian and the Gulf to divide continents).

Republic of Ireland

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

The only reason I really included Turkey is Thrace.