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Hello friend - you are indeed courageous as I knew you were. Most people in your situation would have stayed the hell away from here until all this was sorted out.

My main question to you is simple: Why on earth would Turkey even want to join the EU? They lose their sovereignty, they lose control over everything and give it to France and Germany. This makes no sense. Let the Greeks swim in their own offal in the EU with the rest of them.

[a_Turk]

>> Why on earth would Turkey even want to join the EU?

Many reasons. Similar in realism to the Turkish Cypriots wanting to rejoin the Greek Cypriots who butchered them.

Mostly though it's economical: we don't get much trade even though we manfacture nearly everything and have a young workforce, and it's also about an inferiority complex: we've been fighting on our backs now for 3 centuries and many of us seem to think that being an EU member will mean acceptance as a peer.

How wrong they are.. We need to exact our pound of flesh and let them pound salt.