I'm not even sure what to say about this.

I believe that to be true. During gulf II I was stationed in turkey at a border airfield (Dyabikir, not sure of the spelling) and there was one non Muslim airman there that said to me in French which I am not literate just a few years in school that they grabbed him and he has to do his service due to dual citizenship when visiting family. He was the only one of the Turkish airmen that would eat pork ribs with us. A really friendly country but strange politics to us.