Turkey's EU Ambitions
I was just listening to the radio and they were talking about discussions on Turkey being (or not being) admitted into the EU and the reporter stated that the main reason for Europe's hesitation is the fear of an influx of poor folks from Turkey going into the rest of Europe. As you all know, I am a victim of filtered crappy news sources, the one last thing all Americans can agree on regardless of their reasons for believing it. So I wonder if the Armenian Genocide is even mentioned as a reason when the rest of the world reports on it? In the US, reporters may be caught dead before even mentioning that disputed subject.
The other day NPR was talking about Turkey making efforts to open the borders with Armenia, and how they started letting visitors into Ani, but those stubborn Armenians keep bringing up these allegations of genocide and messing everything up. How dare we.
The other day NPR was talking about Turkey making efforts to open the borders with Armenia, and how they started letting visitors into Ani, but those stubborn Armenians keep bringing up these allegations of genocide and messing everything up. How dare we.
posted by Arsineh at 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
BBC usually focuses on human rights violations as a reason for European reluctance to accept Turkey.
There is also the Cyprus issue, and the closed borders with Armenia. Also, the main unofficial reason is that Turkey is a muslim country as highlighted by Pope a couple of weeks ago.
I think the 'muslim' issue is the main problem with the EU population. If Turkey becomes an EU member, it will achieve what it couldn't when it tried to conquer Europe until the Serbs and the Austrians stopped it.
No matter how much the EU leaders trumpet tolerance and open mindedness, I'm sure they are still suspicious of the Turks.
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