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 golge011 rated 18 months ago - From the page: "The poor Turks are damned either way. If they ban the symbols of Muslim devotion, they're fascists; if they allow them, they're fundamentalists.Once again, we see Europe's politicians determined, in Gladstone's unhappy phrase, 'to turn the Turk, bag and ...
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- evrana rated 17 months ago
- A very sincere analysis of Turkey's EU membership problem. EU's policy against us is generally unintelligible and sometimes it feels like its sole purpose is to alienate Turkish population. In my opinion, full membership is an ugly lie that will never happen, so we will be very happy if EU comes up with some kind of 'privileged associate membership' or so this farce will end. Under current conditions our relationship with EU is like the one you have with a girl who wants cars, houses, drastic lifestyle changes, but never sleeps with you.
- golge011 rated 18 months ago
- From the page: "The poor Turks are damned either way. If they ban the symbols of Muslim devotion, they're fascists; if they allow them, they're fundamentalists.Once again, we see Europe's politicians determined, in Gladstone's unhappy phrase, 'to turn the Turk, bag and baggage, out of Europe.'They will seize on any development - even an abstruse row about the presidential nominee's wife's headscarf - as an excuse to defer Turkey's application for EU membership.One day we are told that Ankara needs to do more for its Kurds, the next that it is being obstreperous over Cyprus, the next that it should grovel about the 1915 Armenian massacres.Not all these objections are baseless, but it is striking to see how differently Turkey is being treated from other members. No one asks the Belgians to face up to what they did in the Congo, or the French to apologise for Algeria.Ankara is especially aggrieved about Cyprus, and with reason: Turkish Cypriots voted to accept the EU's reunification deal, but have since been isolated; Greek Cypriots voted to reject it, but have been embraced.Some Turkosceptic arguments are plain silly. Last month, MEPs hectored Ankara about getting more women into politics - this despite the fact that Turkey elected its first female head of government 14 years ago, while 18 out of the 27 EU members have never been led by a woman.The trouble is that Brussels won't come clean about its real objection which is, quite simply, that there are too many Turks.Under the reheated EU constitution, voting weights are to be determined by population. Turkey is already larger than every state except Germany; and, while Europe is shrinking, Turkey is teeming." I don't think EU has an ideal or even a leadership. It's just a band of rafts trying to move 27 different directions. It's not a suprise that EU is least liked in polls after USA in Turkiye.
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