Erdogan irked, warns EU might lose Turks

Gee, Tayyip, you promise? "Erdogan Warns EU Might Lose Turkey," by Chana Ya'ar for Israel National News, October 31:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Tuesday the European Union will lose his nation if it is not accepted as a member by 2023. At that time, Turkey will celebrate its 100th anniversary as a republic, created following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923.

Erdogan's comment was the first indication of how much longer the country is willing to wait for an answer on its EU membership before finally tossing in the towel.

During a panel discussion Tuesday night in Berlin, Erdogan responded to a question on the subject by saying, “They probably won't string us along that long. But if they do... then the European Union will lose out, and at the very least they will lose Turkey.”

An overwhelmingly Muslim nation of 74 million people that has until recently been mostly secular, Turkey has pursued membership in the EU since 2005.

Its entry has consistently been blocked primarily by France and also Germany, where some 3 million Turkish nationals currently reside. Another 3 million Turkish citizens live in other areas of the EU as well.

The European Commission, which functions as the executive arm of the EU, has said that Turkey does not yet meet the required standards on human rights and freedom of speech. In addition, Turkey has completed only one of 35 policy “chapters” each candidate must finish, according to the EU....

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Erdogan's health problems will certainly prevent him from reaching the Promised (but heavily indebted)Land. Anyway, he doesn't come across as a modern day Moses that almost makes it across the finishing line, but not quite.

Clown!

While wait, Tayyip? Just withdraw the application now and save your country the embarrassment of being rejected.

Turkey’s accession to the E.U. would spell the end of European civilization. Turks, already overpopulating Anatolia, would have free movement within the E.U. Many of those already in Europe resist integration: e.g., honor killings, fetching husbands and wives from Turkey, not learning European languages (e.g., third generation Turks in Germany who don’t speak German), etc. Didn’t Erdogan state that requiring Turks to integrate violated their human rights?

If Erdogan’s de-secularization and re-Islamization policies continue, Turkey will be an Islamic state and not a true republic. He said that democracy was a way station to another destination (sharia state). Gul, per Wikileaks, wants to relive Ottoman glories and empire. Most Turks identify with their ethnic cousins in Central Europe, not “Europeans:” When Uighurs in China revolted, Turks identified closely with them.

One can only hope that the accession of more Balkan countries to the E.U. will bolster the bloc resisting Turkish accession. Unless, of course, they forget the 500 years of Ottoman Turk Islamist “peace, tolerance, and justice.”

Anyone remember the Janissaries?

"EU might lose Turks" by 2023?
Well, EU may be concerned, but vast majority of Europeans asks what can be done to lose the Turks before the coming weekend.

Besides, by 2023 Europe will lose the EU.

Correction:

Most Turks identify with their ethnic cousins in Central Asia, not “Europeans:”

Greetings:

Makes me wonder if there isn't something that could be done to make them quit NATO ??? Admittedly, that would be a tremendous loss but hey what the hey.

This is a demand to surrender, or else. It is more like a declaration of war than anything else. And, it is quite enough to urgently expel his advance troops.

The political, economic and cultural threat from Erdogan's Islamizing AKP grows daily, as pressure grows to get 80 Million Muslim Turks into the European Union.

Journalist, Peter Hitchens visited Turkey in 2010:

"As David Cameron calls for Turkey to join the EU, PETER HITCHENS on the disturbing picture of growing repression at the heart of 'Eurabia'"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1299213/Peter-Hitchens-disturbing-picture-growing-repression-heart-Eurabia.html

We might lose the Turks, oh the disaster, what would we be without the Turks /sarcasm.

Erdogan can take his Turks and get them all back to the shithole they originally came from.

"Erdogan Warns EU Might Lose Turkey"

boo hoo hoo, whatever will we do?
sarc off/

It'd be no loss to lose a turkey!

What a maroon!

"the European Union will lose out, and at the very least they will lose Turkey"

Remark: not at the very last but "at the very least" ! So what more as a response to being repudiated would Turkey have in store ? Strange to see a candidate to membership of a club threatening as it knocks on the door...

Barely better than British sarcasms when the UE got the Peace Nobel Prize ...

Hooray! Who wants them!?

"the European Union will lose out, and at the very least they will lose Turkey"
.....................

Bwahahahahahaha! Not exactly what I'd call a "loss"...

By the way, that headline is an absolute classic. Thanks, Robert!

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