I mean that there are generally political and sometimes economic issues which result in some countries considering or calling Turkey part of the 'Middle East'. It's a political topic (and discussed in the Turkish media as well) and thus not suitable for this discussion.
I feel strongly however that Turkey was placed here correctly on FT as part of Europe. I for one couldn't find the info I needed on FT for a long time due to the number of threads misplaced, and until SanDiego1K did the clean up and realignment, I'm sure that others had similar issues finding threads about Turkey.
I see this as connected - if a subforum is created, there may be more traffic and less confusion about where to find/post threads about Turkey. And then hopefully we'll also see more than just mostly posts about IST, and more about the rest of the country. (I will admit to selfish interests in that regard)