No. Turkey, along with Israel, is a liberal parliamentary democracy in the Middle East Other imperfect democracies in this region include Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and Kuwait.
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Nationalism is a concept and is not dependent on physical actions.Jewish Nationalism in particular was directly affected since Israel was likely to be the only ever attempt at creating a Jewish State. Israel's success in the Arab-Israeli Wars insured Israel's survival.
Of those four, Hinduism was the only one not founded in the Middle East.
There are Jews in many countries, but the only nation which is officially Jewish is Israel. Israel is a secular democracy, where citizens of all faiths have equal rights, but the national holidays, for instance, celebrate the Jewish festivals. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Turkey and Cyprus are both Middle Eastern countries that are part of Europe.
Today, the color blue would be more associated with the state of Israel and so has a negative connotation with most of the Middle East's Arab, anti-Israeli population (an example of this would be the new flag that was intended to replace the old Iraqi flag, only to ultimately be rejected because of the large amount of blue that was used in the flag to represent the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers).