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should turkey be allowed in the European Union? Do you think Turkey's culture and values are different from those of the European Union. Is Turkey's 99.8% Muslim population is too different from Christian-based Europe. If Turkey gets in it will be the second largest country in The EU Germany being first, Do we really want a muslim country with massive say in the EU
Should Turkey join the European Union? Turkey became an official candidate to join the EU in 2005. It has a population of 71 million people, most of whom are Muslims. Do you think it should join the European Union, showing that a moderate Islamic country can integrate into the Western world? Or do you feel that it has no place in the EU, considering that its culture and society are so different from the rest of Europe?
What do you think of TURKEY joining the European Union? and how this will change Europe? and how much more than it already has since Turkish people began immigrating so much? which percentage of the population of Turkey since 1950 have already moved? and how much more this will increase and to which parts of Europe? btw, have you been to Turkey? how you thought of the culture there? do you think Palestine will also become part of Europe too? please xplain and when? thanks for your answers! WHICH YEAR DID TURKEY JOIN OR WILL JOIN? HOW DIFFERENT THAN STATUS BEFORE ?
Will Turkey join the European Union in the future? Do you think they should? There is a lot of talk about Turkey joining the european union in the near future and I don't quite understand what the reasons are why they would want them to join. 1. The country is poor and needs a lot of money from the union to be build up 2. By the time they join they will have the largest population and therefore have the most to say 3. It is an islamic country that could also destabalize the entire union
How come some people (Including the Pope) refuse to give Turkey the right to enter the European Union? Turkey is one of the most secular countries of Europe. Turkey even legalized gay marriage, unlike the US. The people over there are also pretty secular and moderate Muslims. I think it is pure discrimination not to let them in just because the country is 98% Muslims. And Pope Benedict made a remark about Turkey not being able to join the union before, he eventually apologized and payed a visit, but the Turks protested his visit.
what do you think of TURKEY joining the European Union? and how this will change Europe? and how much more than it already has since Turkish people began immigrating so much? which percentage of the population of Turkey since 1950 have already moved? and how much more this will increase and to which parts of Europe? btw, have you been to Turkey? how you thought of the culture there? do you think Palestine will also become part of Europe too? please xplain and when? thanks for your answers! WHICH YEAR DID TURKEY JOIN OR WILL JOIN? HOW DIFFERENT THAN STATUS BEFORE ?
Why should Turkey be allowed to join the European Union? I don't understand the logic behind people who want Turkey in the European Union. The European Union is, by definition, a union of European states. Just 3% of Turkey lies in Europe (the Bosporus). 97% lies in Asia. If Turkey is admitted, why not other Asian countries too? Why not Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, or Syria? There's reason to worry about Islam too, of course. If Turkey joins the EU the borders will be lifted and millions of Muslims may immigrate to Europe without restrictions. And there are already twenty million of them. But the reason for refusal is not anti-Islamic prejudice . Albania and Bosnia are both countries with Muslim majorities that are awaiting future EU membership. Cyprus is an island...It's not geographically part of any continent but is attached to Europe because it's mostly Greek. Similar to Malta. The Seychelles are considered African, but they're islands too. So who should be allowed in the EU, then? Cerrtainly not Greenland, which was in the EEC for ten years, and certainly not French Guiana as a territory under French control in South America (and thus within the European Union, despite being an ocean away). Right? The European Economic Community is different from the European Union. Greenland has been a Danish territory for centuries and Denmark is considered part of the EU, so Greenland is considered European. What you said about French Guiana is misleading. These are the members of the EU: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. "Cyprus should not be allowed geographically by your logic; the entire country is further east than about half of Anatolian Turkey. Russia definitely should not be allowed in Europe geographically by your logic too, but I'll bet they will be allowed in short order." Cyprus is not geographically European but it is considered part of Europe since it is culturally, historically, and politically closely alligned with Europe, unlike Turkey. Since the bulk of Russia isn't in the European Union, I don't support Russia's EU bid either, and your 'bet' is unlikely because there are many tensions between the two. "Furthermore, Turkey's largest city by three times is Istanbul, which is partially in Europe. Turkey has also been in the Council of Europe since 1949 - over 50 years." We're not talking about Istanbul, we're talking about Turkey. Turkey has been in the Council of Europe, yes - I didn't say it shouldn't have special status as an economic and political partner of the EU. We're not talking about Istanbul, we're talking about Turkey. Turkey has been in the Council of Europe, yes - I didn't say it shouldn't have special status as an economic and political partner of the EU. It just shouldn't be part of the EU. "The EU is largely a grouping of civil law states and operates as a superstate structure that follows civil law. Any civil law country that has portions of its country in Europe (and thus interest in Europe) should be allowed to join. As practitioners of common law, the UK and Ireland are actually the anomalies in the EU, /not/ potentially Turkey." "Any civil law country that has portions of its country in Europe (and thus interest in Europe) should be allowed to join." I I haven't studied law, but is this a fact/official EU policy, or an opinion? "is biased, illogical, and prejudiced. If you're not prejudiced, and the 20 million Muslims in Europe don't worry you, then a) you needn't have mentioned them, and b) you needn't have stated you were worried about them." Biased? Yes, I am biased, and I'm not ashamed to be, because I'm an Egyptian ex-Muslim, and Islam punishes apostasy with death. That's not too cruel of me. But the word bias has acquired a bad reputation. It's totally natural to be biased, because being biased basically means having a personal view instead of being objective. However, one's bias should always be supported by facts. I have facts. Illogical? Tell that to the 36% of British 16-24-year-old Muslims who illogically believe apostates should be killed. Or the 40% of British Muslims who illogically believe there should be Islamic law in Britain. Or the 11% of British Muslims who would illogically refuse to report a terrorist attack if they knew of one. Or the hundreds of thousands of French Muslims who illogically burned 10,000 cars and ambushed police officers last year in France. Or the German judge who illogically used the Koran to acquit a wife beater. Or the 90% of British Muslims who illogically identify themselves as Muslim first, British second. Or the racist/religious attacks on European Jews that have illogically increased almost proportionately to Muslim immigration. Let me get this straight, we aren't exactly talking about model immigrants, are we? We're talking about people the majority of whom have failed to integrate. Why should Europe bear the burden of accepting more and more Muslims, dealing with more and more problems, exerting more and more effort to integrate them? Isn't that illogical? Okay, then you know your Greenlandic argument is irrelevant. Why introduce irrelevant facts to make your case look strong? I know French Guiana is a French dependency, by virtue of definition. :-) You yourself said it participates in limited capacity in the European Union. Is it an official member of the EU? Does it get a say in how EU policy is set? Is it even an independent country? Doesn't Turkey also participate in limited capacity in the EU? Your whole argument there is moot. "Your geographical premise for disallowing Turkey is invalid, as other geographical anomalies are allowed." Cyprus is not officially considered part of any continent per se. It is often considered part of the Middle East. Since it's culturally, historically, and politically European, it's considered a European state, and therefore part of the EU. French Guiana has limited participation because it is also European in character/politics, but its faraway location means it is not an official member, and I don't think it ever will be. These are the geographical anamolies you gave me. "Any legal challenge you could mount against the country being allowed membership is most likely invalid, given that Turkish law is much closer to EU norms than are the laws of the UK and Ireland." Yes, the Turkish converts to Christianity who are put up on trial for defaming Islam and the trial of writers and intellectuals for defaming Turkishness or insulting Attaturk really back up your case. Turkey is a pseudo-democracy, like Egypt. They think freedom is something you write on a wall and don't actually practice. Our Constitution grants freedom of religion, so why are Muslim apostates imprisoned and why do they die in custody? "Any legal challenge you could mount against the country being allowed membership is most likely invalid, given that Turkish law is much closer to EU norms than are the laws of the UK and Ireland." Yes, the Turkish converts to Christianity who are put up on trial for defaming Islam and the trial of writers and intellectuals for defaming Turkishness or insulting Attaturk really back up your case. Turkey is a pseudo-democracy, like Egypt. They think freedom is something you write on a wall and don't actually practice. Our Constitution grants freedom of religion, so why are Muslim apostates imprisoned and why do they die in custody? "Any cultural premise to disallow Turkey is simple bias, absent evidence to the contrary, and bolstered by your admitted concern about Islam." (a) It's not a simple bias. All of the countries in the EU up to date have been historically, culturally, and politically European. Turkey is semi-politically European and neither culturally nor historically European. While this is not a technical premise, it represents how things can be different in practice than in theory. Based on the Herculean difficulty of integrating Europe's Muslim population (as well as honor killings by Turks) and the unlikelihood of success in integrating Turkey into the EU based on undemocratic practices, hostility toward Cyprus, which is a real EU member, denial of the Armenian Genocide, I don't think anything less than the complete Europeanization of Turkey would make it legible for admission. And that's impossible. Europe's Muslim minority has been nothing but trouble. And it's growing as it is, Muslims have the highest birthrates in Europe, and thousands of new immigrants arrive each month. With Turkey's admission, the EU would jump from 3% Muslim to 17% Muslim. The situation would get out of hand. "Eurabia" is more of a reality than a myth now. How can you successfully integrate into a set of historically, politically, culturally, and (mostly) geographically European states a nation that is not historically, culturally, or politically European? And if you call Turkey a real democracy, please find me one EU member with a record as poor as Turkey's. Your opinion that I have a 'simple bias'/'prejudice'/'concern' about Islam is laughable. Three times here I get emails from Muslims saying I'm legible to be killed. Is it biased/prejudiced to condemn fanaticism? You contend that Europe has a responsibility to keep accepting Muslim immigrants and keep allowing the Muslim community to grow out of proportion in both number and power, regardless of the consequences. Muslims are NOT integrated. Virtually every European nation with a Muslim minority has had a nightmare. Koran used to acquit a wife-beater in Germany, assassination of Theo van Gogh in Holland, a sharp increase in attacks on Jews in Denmark, Muslims holding signs reading EUROPE YOUR 9/11 IS ON ITS WAY. It's a kind of demographic suicide, don't you think? Of course, even without Muslim immigration, Muslims will soon become very powerful. Birthrate is three times the EU average. Check this website btw, it says this all much better than I can. http://www.noturkey.eu/en.html Doesn't it seem that while some of the technical grounds are on Turkey's side in theory, there are a great many aspects we are not taking into consideration in practice? http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/7/143815.shtml "The Dutch intelligence service – AIVD – says radical Islam in the Netherlands now encompasses a multitude of movements, organizations and groups that embrace the fundamentalist line, 20 of them hard-line Islamist. In London, authorities believe as many as 3,000 veterans of al-Qaida training camps over the years were born or based in Britain. And in France, a study of 1,160 recent French converts to Islam found 23 percent identified as Salafists, another term for Wahhabis." Oh, okay, good night, see you! :-) "Why did you post this in the R&S section?" Most answerers. :-) "Besides, many Turks are already living in Germany. I don't hear any problems about them." Please tell that to Roland Weisselberg. "The Turkish population is the highest out of all the other immigrants groups. So, there is alreay millions of Muslims immigrating to Europe." Is that a good thing? And I don't smoke, let alone smoke a pipe.
why would the european union want turkey? until the break up of the ottoman empire the turks have been invading europe constantly trying to take over the entire continent and converting them, countries like austia and italy fought constantly with the backing of all of europe to keep the turks out so is there really any point of letting turkey into the eu when so many people fought to keep them out?
Do you think Turkey should be allowed to join the European union? I personally say no. Turkey is a third world Muslim country that is located in the Middle East. It isn't a European country. The only reason it has any territority in Europe is because it stold it from the Byzantine Empire in 1453. I wish there was a better place to post this question, but most Americans either don't know or don't care about Turkey getting into the EU.
Does Muslim Turkey belong in European Union? France is having lots of problems with Muslims. Including threats, riots, protests, and attempts to change French law. Denmark has seen several people killed just because they drew a cartoon of Mohamed. Similar things are happening all over Europe. Why would Turkey be a part of the European Union? They will just make things a lot worse. They are not European. I agree with French President Nicholas Sarkozy when he says "I do not believe that Turkey belongs in Europe". What do you think?
Do you think that the US should mind its own business (about Turkey and the European Union) ? Once again America has spoken for the European Union and pissed many europeans off , after Bush Obama cleary said that he wants Turkey in the Union.It is something I really don' t understand , do american leaders really want to anger europeans ? Do they want us to hate the US ? Maybe they just want to weaken Europe I guess. Do european leaders tell how NAFTA should be ? Do they ask a freedom of workers between Mexico and the US ? Seriously mind your own business. According to many polls and surveys many europeans are against Turkey in the UE (especialy in Germany, France, Austria , Greece) , historically culturally Turkey HAS NEVER BEEN a european country, just learn a little bit about european history. PS I respect Turkey a lot , but they are as much european as China is. Scuba you don' t get my point, how would you feel for instance if europeans leaders were lobbying for an amnesty towards illegal mexicans . Or if they were asking for a freedom of people between the US and Mexico ? Many americans don' t understand but we are under attack and under danger by muslim immigration. Moreover Turkey and Europe it s two differents worlds having fought eachother for a millenial. It is not about a love hate relationship , you have to understand that what american leaders are doing is DANGEROUS for us.
When will Turkey become a member of the European Union? ? I don't understand why Bulgaria, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland ect have became members but Turkey has not, when it has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. :S I have always thought of Turkey as being a well developed and established country, unlike some places in Eastern Europe that have already became members.
The European Union, Turkey ? I m a one who is trying to think locally and trying to act globally in order to to reveal the wisdom of turkey on every battle we are dealing with. There is no doubt that Turkey will be the indispensible part of EU. If ıt does implement its implementations,commitments and essential duties such as making reform for violation aganist human rights,zero tolerance for the torture,bringing parmanent solutions in solving Kurdish issue. EU will have the opportunity of establishing energy supremacy in the middle east with the cooperation of turkey. On the other hand Eu will have the opportunity to create brand new image in the middle East. Even more important they will have effective role to diminish the potensial hostility,conflict,clash aganist EU with the cooperation of turkey. Turkey will play really important role in order counter balance when it comes to dealing the tender balance of that territory. Eu will also have the opportunity to establish commercial trade with neighbors of turkey in order to increase public revenue. Eu will also have the opportunity to reassure everyone on the sceptical view which suggest that EU is reluctant for the diversity of other countries. They will have the chance of bringing everyone regardless of their ethnic identity,religion,title,social status etc. Eu will also have the chance to benefit from the comprehensive coexistence experience of Turkey. Obviously there are plenty of opportunities for the both side. But we should tell them this sort of fundemental benefits constantly in order to keep turkey's existence on track. Best Regards Mahmut
Do you think Turkey should be allowed into the European Union? It has little in common with the other countries, it's on the verge of becoming a quasi-theocrasy, doesn't even recognize that all the present EU countries exist (Crete), and moreover, the vast majority of Turkey isn't even in Europe? I have nothing against Turkey, nor am I even European; but I'm curious what Europeans (or whoever) thinks about this. It just seems like a very odd partnership. I'm not being a bigot. I'm really not concerned if Turkey would fit in or not. However, IT'S NOT EVEN IN EUROPE. Do you think South Korea and Japan could join too?
Opinions on Turkey joining the European Union.? What do you feel about Turkey joining the European Union? Since Obama is in Turkey, he recommended in Prague that Turkey should join the EU, since it would have a positive outlook on Islam and other Muslim nations. But isn't there Islam already in Europe? Like some other secular countries for example, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, or Albania. I don't think it changes anything. Turkey is a very beautiful country, with great culture. My opinion is that if Turkey joins the EU, it would loose its uniqueness. They are much better off staying as they are....hopefully away from Europe. What you think? Thanks for the answers :)
should turkey be allowed to get access to the European union? what are the economic, political and cultural arguments in favour of, and against, Turkey gaining full membership of the E.U. On the basis of your analysis justify as to whether you believe Turkey should be allowed to gain full membership of the E.U.? You may want to consider the arguments from a number of perspectives including government, business and the individual citizen from both Turkey and existing E.U. member states. i think Turkey is in the process of joining the EU but it has not been fully in EU yet.
do you think turkey will become apart of the european union? if it does go ahead do you think the uk will be over run by turkish people? i have turkish friends back in the uk. they all say many turkish people will move to the uk. at the moment talks have been suspended with turkey, due to the lack of progress with cyprus they say its open ended and will take up to 15 years. turkey the country is spelt as i wrote it not turky
I'm Mexican. Do I need and Ottoman or an European-Union visa to enter Turkey ? I'm gonna go to visit Istambul, what are the documentation that I do needed to enter into the kountry ? I am a Mexican from Aztlan John Liberman claim to be Jew, so i claim to be Mexican, what is the fkn difference? We Mexican-Americans can be either Mexicans or Americans, and I can explain it to you either in Spanish or English. Turkce it?
Which European Union member states are blocking Turkey's membership request into the EU?? Only European countries that are already members of the EU, so no need to tell me Australia and Japan object...and WHY??? Can Turkey realistically overcome those objections??? @IRMAK, @VASILIKI, @TURKA WITHA BURQUA...Thanks, I believe I see a pattern to the question centering around Austria, Germany, and France... I would have guessed other countries than these ones...ask and you shall receive
What right does Obama say that Turkey should be admitted to the European Union? Is it not a European decision for Turkey to be admitted to the Union? After attempting to court the EU for the last few days, why does he go and say this, and immediately find himself at odds with the Germans and the French? Has the man any sense at all? Eh eh sweet cheeks. I'm pissed because I'm European and BO is sticking his skinny ass in places where its not needed nor wanted Ah Stupendous Man! your name suits you all too well. Now, who saved Europe from Europeans during WWII? Europeans! Specifically, if you want to include the Russians who sacrificed 20 million men and women in WWII. So don't even try that one because you are simply too retarded to even contemplate. Tschuss
Do you agree European union obstucting Turkey to join fearing of being swallowed by great stronging Turkey? * Turkey showed Israel & the West agood & unfogetable lesson lastnight in Davos! * That was a good indication about the future Turkey! To RichB:- Turkish people were massacred befor 1974, until the Turkish army rescued them & forced the peace in the island, So for over 34 years no one greek or turkish was killed! This is the ideal solution of the island. I am sure & you pretty know that if the Turkish army leaves the island, the massacres of the Turkish people will start by the Greek!
Armenians: Is turkey going to be part of the European Union? I heard that the EU wouldn't let them in, until they admitted to the Armenian Genocide, but turkey protested that this was not a requirment in the consideration of other countries, so they took the Armenian issue off the table. I also heard theres going to be a discussion about it Dec. 14... what do you think? Europe wouldnt let them in would they? They have a HORRIBLE human rights track record..it wouldn't be right... any thoughts? What do we do to stop this atrocity?
Should Republic of Turkey be accepted to European Union?Why? Please keep in mindthe Three pillars of the European Union (The Treaty of Maastricht which established the European Union, divided EU policies into three main areas, called pillars.The three pillars: 1. 'Community' pillar concerns economic, social and environmental policies. 2. 'Common Foreign and Security Policy' (CFSP) pillar concerns foreign policy and military matters. 3. 'Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters' (PJCC) pillar concerns co-operation in the fight against crime. This pillar was originally named 'Justice and Home Affairs'. http://www.answers.com/topic/three-pillars-of-the-european-union)
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