Turkey
Just a thought.....seeing as Turkey are trying to join the European Union, I'd like to know why the obvious incidents have apparently not been considered.
Armenian Genocide - technically not Turkey, because it happened before 1923, but still relevant. 1915 to 1917, an estimated 600,000 Armenians died whilst being evicted from the area of modern day Turkey. Some estimates put the figure as high as 1,500,000.
Kurds
Pogroms against the Greeks and Christians in Turkey - 1955.
Invasion of Cyprus.
Incidentally, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, has spoken out about the Armenian massacre amongst other things, see here (cached here), also here (cached here). openDemocracy has an article about the reaction to his statement.
Also, there is an article from openDemocracy considering the issue of Turkey.
Armenian Genocide - technically not Turkey, because it happened before 1923, but still relevant. 1915 to 1917, an estimated 600,000 Armenians died whilst being evicted from the area of modern day Turkey. Some estimates put the figure as high as 1,500,000.
Kurds
Pogroms against the Greeks and Christians in Turkey - 1955.
Invasion of Cyprus.
Incidentally, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, has spoken out about the Armenian massacre amongst other things, see here (cached here), also here (cached here). openDemocracy has an article about the reaction to his statement.
Also, there is an article from openDemocracy considering the issue of Turkey.
Imprinted on your mind by MuppetLord at 2:32 pm
4 Comments:
Yeah, Turkey is 'great'. Even more so for Christmas Dinner...
Hmm...
I think there's a much better case for NOT allowing Turkey into the EU than there is for actually accepting them and this is one of the reasons why it is so.
The EU may well simply be after more cheap labour.
I am trying to write a thorough entry for this but it is very difficult to do dispassionately.
Hmm...it must be quite interesting in Germany I suspect.
Post a Comment
<< Home