• Resol van Lemmy
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    -911 months ago

    Now it’s time for Sweden to let Turkey in the EU

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      Steady on. Erdoğan’s Islamifying the place as a populist, undoing Atatürk’s vision. Turkey belongs in the GCC rather than the EU if it’s on its way to theocracy.

      • @SulaymanF
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        -111 months ago

        The GCC is Arab countries and Turkey is not an Arab country. And the GCC are dictators not theocracies.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      The EU is not about to let Turkey join, and the main reason is that Turkey don’t really want to.

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        011 months ago

        So, they submitted an application in 1999 and then suddenly revoked it?

        • @[email protected]
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          611 months ago

          It’s not revoked. It’s stalled. There’s a huge list of things they’d need to do to join, and they basically haven’t completed any of it.

          Cyprus is a major sticking point, along with Erdogan, who while not quite being a dictator in name, is probably only a little way off it.

    • Skua
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      411 months ago

      Sweden has generally been pretty supportive of Turkish EU accession. Cyprus is a far bigger issue.