Posted on 08/30/2011 2:53:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Turkey hopes that Poland's presidency of the European Council, which began 1 July, will accelerate the country's integration into the EU.
At a meeting with Polish journalists in Istanbul, thanks were made for supporting Turkey thus far, while the country's Minister of European Affairs, Egeman Bagis, underlined the question of visas as a key question at accession talks.
"We are expecting a strong position from the Polish side regarding the matter of these nonsensical visas for Turkish citizens," he said.
"The European Commission is in talks with Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Moldova about liberalizing the visa regime, but not with Turkey," he lamented.
"This is nonsense," he added, stressing that 65 percent of Turkish trade is carried out with Europe.
"We are a full member of the EU Customs Union, our products are allowed to travel within the Union, but the owners of these products are not," he said...
Turkey began official talks about accession to the EU in 2005. Nevertheless, France, Germany and Cyprus are among the most outspoken opponents, citing matters such as gender equality, freedom of speech and freedom of religion...
"We very actively supported the process of Poland's accession to NATO and the European Union, and now we are very happy to receive serious and friendly support from the Polish side in our process of integration with the Union," he said.
"I think that from the very beginning, Poland was very open on this issue, and streadfastly supported our process of integration, and we very much appreciate this," he added.
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...claimed that Americans were tossing so many Iraqi bodies into the Euphrates that local mullahs had issued a fatwa ordering residents not to eat the fish. The same paper repeatedly claimed that the U.S. used chemical weapons in Fallujah. And it reported that Israeli soldiers had been deployed alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and that U.S. forces were harvesting the innards of dead Iraqis for sale on the U.S. "organ market."
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned European Union leaders that violence from Islamic extremists could escalate if the EU rejects Turkey as a member... Turkey signed the association agreement for EU membership in 1963 and it is expected that a two-day EU summit this week will finally decide to begin formal membership talks, probably in the second half of next year... Taking Turkey's 69 million, mainly Muslim, population into the Union is widely disputed... In Germany, leader of the Christian Social Union Edmund Stoiber told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that his party in government would do what it takes to prevent Turkey from becoming a full member of the EU. There is also opposition in other countries. A majority of Danes would much rather see Ukraine as an EU member than Turkey... Turkey has rejected a request from the European Commission to recognise Cyprus ahead of this week's decision on Turkey's EU application. The Greek Cypriots, for their part, have threatened to veto Turkish EU membership. The Turks claim Greek Cypriots do not deserve recognition after they rejected a United Nations plan for the unification of Cyprus, which Turkish Cypriots supported.
Good morning.
Duh! Turkey wants EU visas to export more Muslims into EU at they same time countries are experiencing the Muslim problem.
Just what the EU needs at this moment.
Poland don’t do it. The moozlums want access so their can undermine Europe with their wacky sharia-based “religion”. Moozlum credo: I( love you. I will kill you and your family. Boom! Slash!
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