UK and US step up pressure over Turkey talks
I am a strong supporter of the "Anglosphere", but sometimes the Brits and the Americans are wrong, and continental Euros are right. That certainly is the case regarding Turkey and the EU:Fitzgerald: Jack Straw: Idiots Rule
Idiots rule. Straw is a fool. Historians know it. Visitors to Jihad Watch know it. When will enough people in England know it?
UK and US step up pressure over Turkey talks
Both Britain and the US stepped up the public pressure on the EU to stick to its promise to open membership talks with Turkey next month amid growing concern that the proccess is becoming derailed. In a strongly worded speech on Thursday (8 September), UK foreign secretary Jack Straw said "We all have an interest in the modernisation of Turkey and of reform there." "If we make the wrong decision, we could find that we have a crisis on our own doorstep", said Mr Straw, according to UK media. In the meantime, the US which strongly supports Turkey entering the EU for strategic and geopolitical reasons, has been watching closely from the sidelines. Yesterday, it also chose to make public statements on the matter. During a visit to Brussels, Kurt Volker, principle deputy assistant US secretary of state, said "It is in the interests of the EU, it is in the interests of Turkey, it is in our interests to see accession talks begin ... I hope that some longer-term perspectives would prevail".
British Foreign Secretary: let the Turks into the EU, or someone may get hurt
The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, warned in a hard-hitting speech that snubbing Ankara's hopes would give ammunition to Islamic extremists, while welcoming it into the EU would help avert a "clash of civilisations" between the Muslim world and the West. Failure to start EU membership negotiations on 3 October as scheduled could lead Europe into a "crisis on our own doorstep," Mr Straw said.
Turkey's EU dream dealt double blow as Chirac and Merkel raise doubts
Turkey's 40-year dream of joining the European family suffered a double blow yesterday when Jacques Chirac and Angela Merkel, Germany's conservative leader, raised serious doubts about forthcoming talks on EU membership. In his most significant intervention of the year on Turkey, the French president accused Ankara of failing to act "in the spirit" of a country hoping to join the EU.The interventions by Mr Chirac and Mrs Merkel show that within weeks Turkey could face the nightmare scenario of losing the support of the EU's two most significant countries. Until now Paris and Berlin have been in favour of Turkish membership. Mrs Merkel has always argued in favour of downgrading Turkish membership. The popularity of her stance has allowed Paris to become less friendly to Turkey after the French rejected the draft EU constitution in May. Unease at the prospect of Turkish EU membership was seen as part of the reason for the rejection.
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5 Comments:
Leaders of Germany and France have any sense? I am afraid you are joking.
I support a Turkey in Europe, that could be a possibility of change all over the muslim world.
Have you forgotten Kemal Atartuk? I don´t think Turkey can be compared with the rest of the muslim world, they are very different.
I am aware of the problems that Turkey has now, the real threat of an increasing islamism, but what would it happen if it is rejected? It is very likely that it could try to create its own block with other turkic peoples in Asia, wouldn´t it be another source of tensions?
I want Islam destroyed, but not muslims as a whole. Let´s try to help those who are nearer to a real civilized society.
Jmaria, you need a serious education about what Islam is really about. Those Turks read the same Qur'an as those Arabs. Ataturk and his 'reforms' was only a brief detour on the road to world domination by Islam, the pure, true world for Allah, and only Allah. Mein Kamph, a stupid, and hate filled biography by that supreme Imperialist Adolf Hitler is a best seller in Turkey TODAY. Just go check it out at the library and browse through it and ask yourself, "Why are the Turks reading this claptrap, hatefilled book?"
By allowing Turkey in, the Muslim percentage of the EU population would go to 20% from about 5%. Denial of the truth will not make it true. What if after Turkey joins officially, they refuse to honor some human right decree of the EU? Can you not see the can of worms allowing Turkey into the EU will create?
Some Americans agree with you, Fjordman, and I'm one of them. The realpolitik people (a la Zbigniew Brzezhinski and Brent Scowcroft) are the ones promoting it.
However, Jack Straw may be right about this: "welcoming it into the EU would help avert a 'clash of civilisations' between the Muslim world and the West"; i.e., we'll avoid the clash by preemptive surrender.
I'm glad you're on this issue.
This is the easiest way to destroy the EU, but isn't that just what the Brits want ??
IK-
As a US citizen, please understand that our State Department is staffed by a bunch of morons.
They just delisted Israel as a contributor to Hurricane Katrina relief, while playing up the contributions of Arab countries. This is disgusting.
I sincerely wish that Hurricane Katrina had taken out the State Department rather then NO. We all would have been better off.
Please hang tough, I wouldn't want open borders with Pakistan either.
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