The Turks were miffed to be overtaken by the east Europeans in the 1990s (one Turkish general wondered whether his country would have done better to spend 40 years in the Warsaw Pact instead of NATO).

• 20世纪90年代，欧盟积极拉拢东欧各国、对土热情转淡，厚此薄彼的行为大大激怒了土耳其（某土耳其将军质疑在北约耗费的40年时间花在华约身上或许效果更佳）。