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To: elcid1970

Isn’t Turkey already in the EU? And NATO? Not saying they should be, just trying to keep my bearings. Compass needle is swinging all over the place lately.


6 posted on 06/08/2015 5:53:56 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

“Negotiations were started on 3 October 2005, and the process, should it be in Turkey’s favour, is likely to take more than a decade to complete.[4] The membership bid has become a major controversy of the ongoing enlargement of the European Union.[5]”

Found a neat site about Turkish accession to EU. Apparently not a done deal yet as it has been see-sawing like this for decades.

Turkey is a NATO member (supported us with troops in the Korean conflict) & still has a peace treaty with Israel, so there is still a lot for Erdogan to throw away if he wants to go full eastern & compete with ISIS or Iran in the region instead of seeking cooperation with Europe & the West.

Islam does strange things to the human mind.


8 posted on 06/08/2015 6:05:52 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: wastoute

Not EU yet... however the mad RINO Bushes were pushing for Europe to accept a muslim nation like Turkey, which the French were rejecting.

We got some real class acts amongst suicidal globalists.


9 posted on 06/08/2015 7:33:03 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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