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Sultan Masque, Turkey Why did the title " sick man of Europe "  stick only to Turkey since the same epitome had already been used for other European countries? The Sick man of Europe is a label given to the European countries experiencing a time of economic difficulty or impoverishment before the 19th century.  Why Turkey is called the Sick man of Europe? The phrase ' Sick man of Europe ' was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the Ottoman Empire, later Turkey. "Sick man of Europe" was Ottoman Turkey's epithet in the 19th century. It was the Russian emperor, Czar Nicholas I, who first used it as mocking Ottoman empire's relative backwardness as compared to most of European countries and Russia. It is based on correspondence between two British diplomats prior to the 1856 Crimean War. Sir George Hamilton Seymour, the British ambassador in St. Petersburg, in a letter to Sir John Russell, is said to have quoted the czar as saying, "A ver

Watergate scandal June 17, 1972 & President Richard Nixon  What is Watergate scandal? Watergate scandal is a political burglary in American history. The Republican president was campaigning to reelect for the presidential election in 1972. One of his aides, John Mitchell, made a plan to make Nixon win the election in any way. Due to this 'Watergate Scandal', US President Richard Nixon had to face even the impeachment. Moreover, Richard Nixon is the only President in the history of US Presidents who resigned from the office. The US Presidential elections were scheduled to be held by the end of the year in 1972. Thus, a 'Committee to Re-elect the President was formed by the Republican party. In June 1972, five burglars broke into the office of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party headquarters, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. to plant tape-recording devices and to copy important DNC files. But the night watchman who ale