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EU to bid adieu to Turkey?

In the cartoon above, the man is asking when Turkey will be admitted to the European Union. Reading between the lines of this article, the likely answer appears to be never (Hat Tip: Joshua I).

The European Parliament “is concerned about the deterioration in freedom of the press, about certain acts of censorship and about growing self-censorship within the Turkish media, including on the Internet [and] calls on the Turkish government to uphold the principles of press freedom,” said the non-binding report penned by the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, a Dutch Christian Democrat politician.

The European Parliament has also decided “to closely follow the cases of Nedim Şener, Ahmet Şık and other journalists facing police or judicial harassment,” according to the report, the most critical drafted by the European body in recent years.

This motion to insert this amendment into the report was verbally given by Oomen-Ruijten and adopted following a police raid on the homes of a group of journalists last week, a move that drew strong criticism from the European Union, the United States and human-rights organizations. Some 38 proposals were submitted for amendments to the critical report at a session Tuesday.

Critics say the arrests are part of a bid to silence voices ahead of the June 12 general elections, which the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, is expected to win.

Turkey looks more and more like Iran daily.

Comment from Joshua I:

Critical Question : What did the CHP do all the previous years il held power in Turkey for the Europeanization and Westernization of the country and of the Turkish society? Critical Answer: NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

The CHP simply kept the power and privileges of its corrupt and decadent elit and of the army and thus paved the way for the AKP and for islam.

Hmmm.

Labels: European Union, Turkey

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:16 PM