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2004-11-05 Europe
One More Knife in the Back for Turkey. For Good Measure.....
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Posted by danking70 2004-11-05 1:59:38 PM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Too bad the Turks looked to Europe instead of trying to fashion a stronger relationship with the US. Turkey could have been the dominant power in a revitalized Middle East.
Posted by RWV 2004-11-05 2:49:53 PM||   2004-11-05 2:49:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lol! Oh Gul, you are such a tool!
Posted by .com 2004-11-05 2:51:17 PM||   2004-11-05 2:51:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, I have to say this to Turkey:

I TOLD YOU SO!
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2004-11-05 2:58:53 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2004-11-05 2:58:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If you lie down with weasels, you wake up with a piece of cutlery between the shoulder blades.
Posted by Mike  2004-11-05 2:59:18 PM||   2004-11-05 2:59:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Where's Murat?

"Privleged partnership" is that sorta like sittin' in the back of the bus?
Posted by AlanC  2004-11-05 3:02:44 PM||   2004-11-05 3:02:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 HA! Gul'd again!
Posted by mojo  2004-11-05 3:23:00 PM||   2004-11-05 3:23:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Turkey is not part of Europe. They're a Moslem country that shares none of the European heritage of the Renaissance, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.

The only thing they should have between Europe and Turkey is a free-trade agreement, after proper apologies and compensation for the Armenian genocide. Then let them grow a bit more prosperous and see if they adopt pro-freedom attitudes. Probably will. In a generation or two. Especially if Iraq becomes the Japan of the Middle East.
Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-11-05 3:28:49 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]  2004-11-05 3:28:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Gee, I wonder if Turkey would be willing to belong to a "Middle East Union" along with Iraq and Israel?
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-11-05 3:41:22 PM||   2004-11-05 3:41:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yabbut if Iraq becomes the Japan of the Middle East, why would Turkey want to bother hooking up with Europe?
[The above was writ sarcastik.]
Posted by Old Grouch  2004-11-05 3:42:23 PM||   2004-11-05 3:42:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Oui, M. le President. Separate but almost equal.

Damn, speaking of cutlery between the shoulderblades!

9.86
Posted by Shipman 2004-11-05 3:45:26 PM||   2004-11-05 3:45:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Ya know, I was thinking about Turkey. If the ME would get its head out of its Jiihadi ass long enough, it would be neat to have a ME type common market between, say Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and eventually Israel. Others could come in as they escaped the fetters of Islamofascism. The US could develop close trading ties with this common market. There is a lot hinging on Iraq right now. But I see no future for Turkey with the EU except trade. I can dream, can't I?
Posted by Alaska Paul  2004-11-05 4:08:57 PM||   2004-11-05 4:08:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Nice plunge but they're not twisting the knife. Twist it! Twist it, dammit! Give it a twist! Twist! Aw heck, here - lemme.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-05 4:14:27 PM||   2004-11-05 4:14:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 As Jaques looks down from the castle walls

Go away you silly boys, you ignorant fruit trop wollopers. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries

With appologies to the boys from Monty Python
Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-05 5:06:58 PM||   2004-11-05 5:06:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The only thing they should have between Europe and Turkey is a very big wall, heavily mined on the European side.

Posted by Ulique Snearong2968 2004-11-05 6:31:03 PM||   2004-11-05 6:31:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 The heck with where Murat is, where is Aris? What's the deal here? The EU can't possibly be too bigoted against those "separate but equal" "darkies" in Turkey, can they?
Posted by Asedwich  2004-11-05 7:26:37 PM||   2004-11-05 7:26:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 It's not the color of their skin, but that they rejected Christianity in the wrong century.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-05 7:30:37 PM||   2004-11-05 7:30:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Turkey is potentially a key player in the success of Iraq.

Forget about military considerations and look at where the major rivers originate. If it wanted and were willing to push things, Turkey could make a decent stab at controlling water flow throughout much of the Middle East.

Fortunately dams are easy to blow up.
Posted by rkb 2004-11-05 7:50:39 PM||   2004-11-05 7:50:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I dunno, Mrs. Davis. I've traveled extensively in Eastern Europe with an early-christian/Baroque musical group, and my darker colleagues were greeted as a not-entirely-welcome novelty. Kind of like the greeting a talking dog gets---not welcome because it talks well, but simple amazement that it talks at all. The reception we got in many churches left me with a bad taste.
Posted by Asedwich  2004-11-05 7:55:19 PM||   2004-11-05 7:55:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 D'Estaing (sp) told them right after they screwed US that they're not going to become a part of Turkey.

They've been telling that all along.

Not my fault they fell for the frog prince's promises.
Posted by anonymous2u 2004-11-05 7:56:24 PM||   2004-11-05 7:56:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I think Kalle nailed the best case situation for Turkey, a free trade agreement. What benefit do Europeans get by opening the border w/ Turkey vs. the downside.
Posted by ed 2004-11-05 8:34:15 PM||   2004-11-05 8:34:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 

Haahahaahahaaaa!!!!

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-05 10:56:05 PM||   2004-11-05 10:56:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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