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minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down13·5 months agoNow it’s time for Sweden to let Turkey in the EU
minus-squareWelt@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·5 months agoSteady on. Erdoğan’s Islamifying the place as a populist, undoing Atatürk’s vision. Turkey belongs in the GCC rather than the EU if it’s on its way to theocracy.
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agoI guess that answers the question.
minus-squareSulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·5 months agoThe GCC is Arab countries and Turkey is not an Arab country. And the GCC are dictators not theocracies.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·5 months agoThe EU is not about to let Turkey join, and the main reason is that Turkey don’t really want to.
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·5 months agoSo, they submitted an application in 1999 and then suddenly revoked it?
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoIt’s not revoked. It’s stalled. There’s a huge list of things they’d need to do to join, and they basically haven’t completed any of it. Cyprus is a major sticking point, along with Erdogan, who while not quite being a dictator in name, is probably only a little way off it.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoSweden has generally been pretty supportive of Turkish EU accession. Cyprus is a far bigger issue.
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·5 months agoThe Cyprus problem is just sad.
Now it’s time for Sweden to let Turkey in the EU
Steady on. Erdoğan’s Islamifying the place as a populist, undoing Atatürk’s vision. Turkey belongs in the GCC rather than the EU if it’s on its way to theocracy.
I guess that answers the question.
The GCC is Arab countries and Turkey is not an Arab country. And the GCC are dictators not theocracies.
The EU is not about to let Turkey join, and the main reason is that Turkey don’t really want to.
So, they submitted an application in 1999 and then suddenly revoked it?
It’s not revoked. It’s stalled. There’s a huge list of things they’d need to do to join, and they basically haven’t completed any of it.
Cyprus is a major sticking point, along with Erdogan, who while not quite being a dictator in name, is probably only a little way off it.
Noted
Sweden has generally been pretty supportive of Turkish EU accession. Cyprus is a far bigger issue.
The Cyprus problem is just sad.