The Turks are just hell bent on displaying to the Europeans, that they are most certainly not a European country or civilisation.
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| Brutal Turkish Police |
Secular, 'European' thinking Turks, are increasingly being attacked and killed by both nationalists and Islamists for being "Unpatriotic" as this report details.
Now this blog has been sceptical about Turkey being a fit member of the EU with its anti Western and Christian stance, on many, many issues, and we did point out that despite promises to repeal it, the law that makes insulting turkey or its people a crime was still in place (under a different wording), and as we predicted, its proved to be a big benchmark on Turkeys lack of basic democratic principles and attitudes.
And this latest report from the BBC shows that, despite paying a lip service to reforms, they are actually moving away from EU standards of 'free speech, freedom of conviction and freedom of movement;, not closer.
If the UK, and others such as the US, really want Turkey to join the EU, then some very straight talking to the Turkish people is the only way, because if they join under a fudge, then it will be the end of the EU.
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