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2016-10-02 The Grand Turk

Erdogan Bey says 'Turkey in ‘endgame’ over EU membership

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 "If the EU is going to make Turkey a full member, we are ready. But they should know that we have come to the end of the game," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Ankara.

Fuck him. Fuck them. Why are we pretending this is even a question?

Posted by Crusader 2016-10-02 01:57|| 2016-10-02 01:57|| Front Page Top

Turkey had reached the "end of the game" over its decades-long EU membership bid, saying it was time for Brussels once and for all to make clear if it wanted Ankara as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-02 02:53|| 2016-10-02 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 No way Recep - you're not "anti-zionist" enough to be in EU.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-02 07:17|| 2016-10-02 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Erdogan for the first time rejected the notion that the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne was a "victory" for Turkey and wistfully lamented the loss of Aegean islands which are now Greek territory.

Ok you Euro weenies he has all but declared a war of conquest on you. What you gonna do, hmmm?

Posted by AlanC 2016-10-02 07:31|| 2016-10-02 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 let's see.. lose Great Britain, gain Turkey;
that's a wash, right?....right??

Posted by Ebbinetle Hapsburg2476 2016-10-02 13:09|| 2016-10-02 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 the July 15 failed coup

Depends on who was conducting the coup.

However thanks to the strategic brilliance of Ataturk and victory in the War of Independence against Greece, modern Turkey was founded in 1923 as a state stretching from the Mediterranean to Persia. The military victory and Lausanne Treaty reversed the outcome of the 1919 Treaty of Sevres which, if implemented, would have seen modern Turkey reduced to a rump around Istanbul and Anatolia.

"In Lausanne, we gave away islands (so near that) your voice can be heard if you shout across to them. Is this a victory?" he asked. "They were ours. There are our mosques, our shrines there."

Territorial revanchism has really worked out well for Europe in the last 100 years or so.

Let's do the ~~Timewarp~~ Sudetenland again!

Posted by charger 2016-10-02 20:21|| 2016-10-02 20:21|| Front Page Top

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