Can anyone blame me for being less than enthusiastic about Turkish accession to the EU after reading this charming story? As one commenter on MeFi notes of the "constant demands" being made by the EU,
they aren't demands so much as suggestions to stop torturing people, including young teenagers, in police custody while playing loud pop music to drown out the screams. That and the fact that Turkey has a lot if Islamic fundamentalists of the "I KEEL YOU! I KEEL YOU! DEATH TO THE INFIDELS! variety who want to take power and start chopping off heads and hands and stoning women accused of trying to control their bodies and destinies.To listen to the Turks, one would think EU membership was a right of theirs, rather than a privilege to be extended at the discretion of prior members. Turkey - and by "Turkey" I mean more than the city formerly known as Constantinopolis - is simply too large, too backward, and yes, too Muslim to ever be allowed to join the European Union: the Turks may have been at the fringe of the European world for some 700 years now, most of which they spent menacing it, but in no meaningful sense can they be described as being part of it, and guilt trips over "discriminating against Muslims" or "racism" (as if Turks can be distinguished from Greeks!) can't be allowed to obscure this fact. Israel has a far better founded claim to EU membership than Turkey does, as would Japan, for that matter, were it not for geographical circumstances.
PS: Burak Turna isn't the only peddler of hate-filled tripe to be doing brisk business in Turkish bookstores.
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