Sorry bro, i appreciate any honest and hard effort but i stick to my original statement but if you want to play semantics and are offended, i will say then turks overcome boundaries imposed by western rulers enlarge before any other muslim nation.
You know little about Muslim history outside ME it seems.
In the mid-18th century Bengal was probably the most wealthiest region on Earth and one of the few outside Europe that started industrialisation. BD was already at "proto-industrialisation" stage.
However there were too many traitors in S Asia and so Mughal Bengal was conquered in the 18th century by UK and its future taken away from it. In fact after the 1857 "Indian war of independence", where many Bengal regiments rebelled, the British never trusted Bengali soldiers again and so nearly all the Bengali units were dismantled.
Only from 1971 was it(BD) again really independent again and was able to develop from practically level zero.
We are pragmatic people and that is why we are deepening our economic relations with Hindu India, Hindua Nepal and eventually Buddhist Bhutan. Unlike the entity that Turkey is chums with, these are legitimate people as the people are natives to these countries and not a bunch of colonisers turning up from all corners of the world and claiming their "holy land".
There is absolutely nothing special about what Turkey has done. In fact it has not been colonised for hundreds of years and so it being an "upper middle income" is no special feat.
So before you make sweeping statements about Muslims next time, please make sure you know what you are talking about.
PS - Did you know that the British used Bengal designed and constructed warships at the "Battle of Waterloo" as they were superior to their own?
