Mögliche EU-Mitgliedschaft der Türkei

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Dutch P.M.: E.U. Not U.S.A. Will Decide Turkey's E.U. Membership
CihanNews: 6/28/2004
THE HAGUE (CIHAN) - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said on Monday that it was at the EU's own initiative to open accession talks with Turkey.

Commenting on statements by US President George W. Bush who asked EU leaders to open accession talks with Turkey, the Dutch Prime Minister said that the European Union will decide itself whether to open accession talks with Turkey or not.
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Außenministerium: "Österreichische Haltung zu türkischem EU-Beitritt unverändert"
Außenministerin Ferrero-Waldner in türkischer Tageszeitung zugeschriebene Aussage unrichtig

Wien (OTS) - Unter Bezugnahme auf einen Bericht in einer
türkischen Tageszeitung vom 30. Juni 2004, dem zu Folge
Außenministerin Benita Ferrero-Waldner der Türkei ihre Unterstützung
für den EU-Beitritt zugesagt habe, stellt das Außenministerium fest,
dass die Bundesministerin Ferrero-Waldner zugeschriebene Aussage
unrichtig ist. Die österreichische Position in dieser Frage ist
unverändert: Der Europäische Rat wird im Dezember auf Basis eines
Berichtes der Europäischen Kommission zu beurteilen haben, ob die
Türkei die politischen Kriterien von Kopenhagen erfüllt. Demgemäß
wird der Europäische Rat über die Aufnahme von Beitrittsverhandlungen
mit der Türkei entscheiden.
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EU rights court condemns Turkey over expulsion of Kurds

30/06/2004 AFP
STRASBOURG, June 29 (AFP) - 18h40 - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned Turkey for expelling about 15 Kurdish villagers from their homes under a 1994 state of emergency and for preventing them from recovering their property.

The decision is the first with a bearing on the inability of hundreds of Kurds to return home to their villages in southeastern Turkey until July 2003.
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"Die EU könnte einen Beitritt der Türkei im Moment nicht bewältigen"
Iran, Irak und Syrien wären als Nachbarn der Europäischen Union undenkbar, sagt Erhard Busek, Koordinator für den Stabilitätspakt in Südosteuropa
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Schäuble lehnt EU-Beitritt der Türkei ab

- Vize-Fraktionschef der Union weist US-Forderung zurück

Der Vize-Fraktionschef der Union, Wolfgang Schäuble, hat die Forderung von US-Präsident George Bush zurückgewiesen, die Türkei müsse EU-Mitglied werden. "Mit einem Türkei-Beitritt würde die Legitimität der EU in der Bevölkerung verloren gehen. Dann würde auch die Chance für eine wirkliche politische Einigung dramatisch sinken", sagte Schäuble dem "Handelsblatt".
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Important to Understand the Islamic Sway Over Turkey
Written by Raphael Israeli
Tuesday, June 29, 2004

The inexplicable Western policy of appeasement towards Islam has been predicated upon the false assumption that if the ''moderate'' and ''pragmatic'' model that has ''triumphed'' in Kemalist Turkey is upheld and sustained, this might deter and thwart the wave of fundamentalist Islam that has been terrorizing the West.
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This is the context in which one has to see the revived debate about the entrance of Turkey into the European Union. Right are those heads of the Union, like Kohl, Giscard, and Berlusconi, who shun this union of Middle Eastern Muslims with Europe which is still essentially Western, if not practically Christian. Their fears are well-founded: if to their 400 million basically Europeans, Westerners, and Christians they add another 60 million Muslims, part of whom do not seek adaptation to the West but transformation thereof, then we are in for a great clash of cultures and friction between traditions, rather than a harmony that multi-ethnic societies could ideally produce, but unfortunately seldom do.
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Thus, whatever the official ''pretexts'' of certain European members of the European Union in their rejection of accepting Turkey in their midst, the truth is that they fear the effect of close to 20% Muslim population in Europe, should Turkey join. Due to their rapid demographic growth, they may double their percentage within the population within a few decades, and if they insist like the Muslim fundamentalists now already established on altering Europe, this may spell out trouble.

This is a harsh discourse that few politicians dare pronounce, so they speak about the insufficient rate of democratization and human rights, or about the high proportion of farmers in Turkey which would ruin the agricultural policy of subsidies within the European Union. But the ascendance to power of Erdogan does not help the Turkish cause in this regard, for beyond his promises and his smiling faces to the West, veteran Europeans cannot disregard his past record of incarceration for his radicalism, nor his present rapprochement back into the Arab and Islamic fold. Undoubtedly… a recipe for conflict.

Andere koennen die US Wahl kaum erwarten - mir bang es mehr vor Dezember in Kopenhagen....