Turkey dictates terms to the EU dhimmis. From AFP, with thanks to Anthony:
Turkey has given the European Union a paper outlining its major concerns over a decision the bloc's leaders will take later this month on Ankara's membership bid.Foreign Minister Abd Allah Gul said on Thursday Ankara will not recognise the Greek Cypriot government of EU member Cyprus until a durable solution is found to the 30-year conflict between the divided island's Turkish and Greek communities.
"We expect a clear date for the start of accession talks, leaving no room for second thoughts and containing no conditions, to be announced on December 17," Gul told reporters, referring to the date of the Brussels summit when EU leaders will decide whether to open membership talks with Turkey.
"Another very important issue is that the negotiation process should be sustainable," Gul said. "The perspective of full membership also should be very clearly declared."
Ankara has ruled out suggestions by opponents of full membership that it should instead be granted a special partnership status with the EU.
"There should be no doubts on these issues," Gul said. He said the demands he listed were outlined in a paper he handed to the EU's Dutch presidency this week in response to a first draft of conclusions for the 16-17 December summit.
In June 1941 Turkey signed a "Friendship" pact with Nazi Germany. While nominally neutral until 1945, Turkey supplied chromium to the Nazis throughout the war. This is a vital ingredient in the making of steel. Turkey was the sole source of this strategic material to the Nazis and its supply prolonged the war in Europe.
Demands and more demands...
From those who have the least to give ...
unwilling to address the mess they made in Cyprus,
no solutions in sight.
And now they are to be rewarded by becoming members of the EU?
I am so glad I don't live there anymore!!!
This should serve as a harbinger of the bullying that can be expected from Turkey if it is admitted to the EU. If ever there was a bad idead, admitting Turkey to EU is it.
Maybe its just the blues
But me can't today help but feel perhaps, just perhaps, these scoundrel islaists may just about succeed out of sheer audacity what no other civilizational foe in the AD years could succeed in doing... defeat the west.
Maybe just maybe, Turkey will gain access to the EU. And that will herald the end of days for Europe. Alas, cradle to the greatest civilization in recorded history, now about to be laid waste...
Shiva and Mike are topping the cake today, but von Clauswitz is in the running:
All generals are men of peace. They want to take over your country without opposition.
That's a close paraphraze.
Hey, they sneaked in Michael Jackson; we retaliated with Mike's barnyard animals. War is hell.