Nor is he polite about the European Union, which Turkey still, officially, wishes to join.
For all of its spectacular successes and vastly greater numbers of lesser-known failures, most people are quite polite about things.
Argentina is applying a, let us be polite about this, controversial interpretation of its own laws over the nationalisation of YPF from Repsol.
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OpenStreetMap itself has been much more polite about the whole thing.
While his postponement of the elections infuriated Mr Adams, Mr Blair was quite polite about the Sinn Fein leader's efforts to keep the peace process alive.
Socrates and Aristophanes were hardly polite about the Athenian democracy.
If he had a misstep, it was his polite words about the Yankees.
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Relaxed, friendly and spontaneous, the attractive young woman who escorted us to our room offered a constant stream of useful information, punctuated by polite questions about what we might like to see and do during our stay.
Sony sat down with Eurogamer at the Develop conference last week, and had some interesting things to say about its new motion controller technology -- including a bit of polite smack to talk about the Wiimote.
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Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.
He's also fanatical about tipping well and being polite to the staff.
No squeak of protest has been heard from the Fund, and only polite and general remarks about Russia's other economic sins.
Parents are more likely to have to explain to their children the etiquette of talent booking than anything dirty, and if you're not prepared to tell your kid about why it isn't polite to cancel a late-night guest at the last minute, I guess I can't speculate on what other conversations might prove difficult.
It can only be hoped that in the coming weeks and months ahead of the presidential election, the political center of American politics will reassert itself and that the final race will be between leaders who abjure bigotry and understand that foreign policy is neither about minding your business nor being polite.
What FSA officials say about the SFO is frequently not repeatable in polite company.
She dismissed me with a polite and condescending smile and went about her merry and metric-happy way.
The judge was described by lawyers as unfailingly polite and cordial, often asking about attorneys' spouses and children by name.
"People like what they know, " said Ms. Wilson, adding that she'd have to be polite if asked what she thought about other people's homes.
"The first day the 'butler' comes to work, he will be very polite as he does not know much about me, but as we begin to work together, he will become better acquainted with my preferences and will make decisions without having to consult me, " said Professor Jennings.
Maybe there can be a step back, or at least a polite pause of momentum, and a school can have a healthy conversation about what it wants when it wants to be part of college sports.
When countries had one, or two, or three television networks, then governments could, in a polite sort of way, instruct them to carry lots of very serious reports about the opening of a power station.
In addition to signing a polite yet firm non-disclosure agreement, Moffat asked us to not reveal certain details about the episode.
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The reference got a polite laugh from the CES audience, but Cuban exiles in South Florida are notoriously and understandably touchy about such references.
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