Gemeinsame europäische Länder mit kleinerer Bevölkerung als die Türkei

damn.

population increased massively, like other Middle East countries.

part of the reason it’s never joining EU. (could probably join if it had 40-50 million).

yes Turkiye’s population is higher than the majority of the countries in Europe but this is no good way to demonstrate this. It is almost “let me pick the least populated countries in Europe and combine them to show how they have less population than Turkiye. It would’ve made a lot more sense if it was compared individually.
Right now, it just looks like that you’re trying to pat yourself on the back, because you just have more population than these countries combined.

Remember, back in 1920s, Czechoslovakia had larger population than Turkey.