NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that Turkey has agreed to back Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance – a major development on the eve of the NATO summit.
Everyone, almost, in the EU want Turkey to accept our values and become more us, and would be happy to support it if it had any chance of succeeding. (For differing values of “our” and “us”).
I can’t see how a state with a muslim major population will align with the EU in regards of human rights. Unless Atatürk jumps out of the grave and beats Erdogan to death with a steel chair I can’t see how religion and state will sufficiently be separated in Turkey.
We already have a religious hardliner in the EU with Poland and they’re already a pain in the ass when it’s not about fighting Russia.
Oh come on. Turkey legalized adultery as one of the prerequisites for joining the EU, and despite that and other changes their application was still turned down.
Greece has a state religion and a long history of unfairness to religious minorities and they were still allowed to join the EU. Catholic Ireland didn’t legalize abortion until 2018 but they’ve been an EU member for ages.
Everyone, almost, in the EU want Turkey to accept our values and become more us, and would be happy to support it if it had any chance of succeeding. (For differing values of “our” and “us”).
So nothing to see here.
I can’t see how a state with a muslim major population will align with the EU in regards of human rights. Unless Atatürk jumps out of the grave and beats Erdogan to death with a steel chair I can’t see how religion and state will sufficiently be separated in Turkey.
We already have a religious hardliner in the EU with Poland and they’re already a pain in the ass when it’s not about fighting Russia.
Well, it was sort of the point that there are things we won’t accept that Turkey is unlikely to relinquish.
That said apart from maiming baby boys on their penis, Islam works just as well with reasonable modern European values as Christianity.
Ok, ok, just as poorly.
Oh come on. Turkey legalized adultery as one of the prerequisites for joining the EU, and despite that and other changes their application was still turned down.
Greece has a state religion and a long history of unfairness to religious minorities and they were still allowed to join the EU. Catholic Ireland didn’t legalize abortion until 2018 but they’ve been an EU member for ages.