i do believe that turtles have some sort of emotions. i have a red eared-slider turtle. his name is Arnold. i have had him for about 5 years. when i got him, he was the size of a U.S. quarter dollar. now... 5 years later he is about 15 inches long, from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. i have kept him in a water filled aquarium his whole life (of course with land that he can access at any time he'd like). when he was about a year old, give or take, i put a small empty glass shooter (a single shot of liquor) bottle, with a metal lid in his tank, filled with random rocks, stones and pebbles that i had found. i find the answer to be wrong because from that day to the present day, whenever i turn my music on loud, he gets down at the bottom of his tank, and he extends his front legs out as far in front of his head as they can go, and he taps his claws on the lid of the bottle repetitively with the beat of the song. the louder the music, the more he does this. when i tap my nails softly but fast on the glass, he knows that i am wanting to give him attention and he comes up to the top and sits on the land so i can attend to him. when i tap my nails louder on the glass, but not as hard, he knows its time to eat! But yes, i do think turtles have emotions.
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Doubtful since "love" is a term that is placed upon a variety of of feelings within the human emotional spectrum.
You can not tell a turtles feelings. They may be happy and you do not even know.