Strugling For Own Culture

Over the years foreign influences have changed lots of countries’ and nations’ destiny. Either economically or politically, influences force countries to change their way of living. Some of them could not resist the influence and vanished from history. Others stand like a rock in front of the influences and have their own identities as pure as it was at first day. Wounded Knee and Turkey are two places which evidenced different kinds of foreign influences. And there are some similarities and differences between them.
Throughout their history, Turks had to struggle with the nations who wanted to take control of them. Turks also fought with the difficulties which were caused from developments in European countries like England, Spain, France and Russia.
In middle age, Ottoman Empire had the control of trade on Europe and Asia by capturing the land which covers Silk Road, begins at China and goes through Europe, before Vasgo dö Gamma, a Spanish sailor, found a new way to I...