The Greek and Greek Cypriot politicians still try to make an anti-Turkey propaganda and a diversion within the EU (ABhaber confirmed that yesterday). Let’s underline this: Turkey doesn’t occupy Cyprus. Turkey intervened in Cyprus in order to save the Turkish Cypriots. Last year Carl Bildt answered to some Greek politicians at the EU parliament that… » read more

According to ABhaber, the christian democrats are still making an anti-Turkey propaganda at the EU parliament. Though the European Union-Turkey negotiations already started. So it’s not credible and sensible to call into question Turkey’s European idendity and EU membership. The EU politicians (the christian democrats at the top) who are disgracefully sabotaging the EU-Turkey negotiations… » read more

I’m more convinced than ever about the official EU-Turkey fusion. Yes, more than ever. The EU is very ill and needs a political change. See the EU below! That picture explains the European situation. Excellent criticism, isn’t it? Chris Patten too thinks what that caricature expresses very well. According to him, the issue of the… » read more

Here is another positive surprise about Turkey: Kanal Istanbul (Channel Istanbul), which is an artificial maritime traffic that will (fully?) replace the current Bosphorus. At the end of the short article below I suggest a few very interesting useful comments.

Practically the Eastern EU enlargement for the moment is stopped. Croatia’s membership is a bit delayed, Turkey’s EU bid is dead as the continent simply has no intention of ever incorporating 70 million Muslims and the rest – such as Serbia – are still more or less in association process. […]

Asking this question, I am using the language of the Turkish chief negotiator Egemen Bagiş. He says that his country’s negotiating process should be ’sustainable’ and advocates benchmarks, allowing chapters to be opened, negotiated and the closed, insted of either being blocked once opened, or prevented from opening. However I am not sure whether he… » read more

I would give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I will like them. But it’s not love at first sight. (This is my shortest blogpost so far. I also realise that it looks like a haiku…)

Between 1995 and 2007 the EU has almost doubled its membership, from 15 to 27 members, accepting more new member states than ever before within a very short time span. This rapid expansion has not been preceded by the necessary strengthening of its institutional functioning, in particular its decision making capacity. Since 2004, the EU… » read more