Turkey is a pretty big and a pretty poor country with over 70 million people, it is not a secret.
Why do you find it so shocking? She was still fighting partitionist Europeans not that long ago, having said that she probably still is but just in a different way.
Put away the external influences that just makes things worse, she is also fighting to protect herself from herself and in my opinion the brain disease called Islam is at the pinnacle of the problems that is eating her from inside.
But then again, the comment you 2 so keenly emphasize can also be applied to the USA, just drop the bit that says "poor"