I am not sure why the term anchor babies is so politically incorrect.

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7. While I spent three years in Turkey,

I loved it there and the people were wonderful. However, at that time it was not a particularly democratic place to raise a family. It was also a very chauvinistic place where women were definitely second class citizens. I knew that this would eventually get me into trouble.

We went there on a two year tour and asked to stay another year because we loved it there. We had a chance to move onto base housing which was about ten miles away with a lot more of life's conveniences but we would have missed the charm and friendship of living in town. Also my four year old spoke fluent Turkish, a skill she would not have acquired living on a base.

So no, I did not want to become a turk myself, I just wanted to enjoy getting to know another part of the world.