Indeed, in some ways it counts for more than when the Ottoman empire was crumbling a century ago and Turkey was widely known as the "sick man of Europe".

今天的土耳其确实在很多方面都比那个曾在一个世纪以前奥斯曼帝国土崩瓦解后被称作“欧洲病人”的土耳其进步许多。