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British PM: Turkey Will Join Europe ‘in Year 3000’
Al Arabiya ^ | Sunday, 22 May 2016

Posted on 05/22/2016 8:39:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday said that Turkey would only be able to join the European Union “in about the year 3000,” hitting back at claims that Britain would lose the power to vote over Turkey’s membership if his country leaves the bloc.

‘Vote Leave,’ a cross-party campaign, is urging British citizens to vote to leave the EU all together in a June 23 referendum. The ‘Leave’ campaign predicts that 142,000 Turkish citizens could head to the UK every year if Ankara joins the EU.

But for Cameron, who wishes for the UK to stay in the European bloc, the ‘Leave’ campaigners are making a “very misleading” claim about Turkey and are “absolutely wrong.”

(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; britain; cologne; eu; europeanunion; germany; nato; pegida; turkey; unitedkingdom; waronterror

1 posted on 05/22/2016 8:39:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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British PM: Turkey Will Join Europe ‘in Year 3000’

KarlInOhio: England will be forced to join the Caliphate 'in Year 2025'.

2 posted on 05/22/2016 8:55:14 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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Thanks nickcarraway.
3 posted on 05/22/2016 9:22:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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