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| The Grand Turk |
| We don’t need EU membership anymore: Turkey's president |
| 2017-10-02 |
| [Iran Press TV] ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... says Ankara no longer needs to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , but will not unilaterally quit the stalled talks on accession to the 28-nation bloc. "We will not be the side, which gives up. To tell the truth, we don’t need EU membership anymore," President Erdogan told the He, however, suggested that the bloc still needed ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , saying, "If the EU is going to leap forward, there is only one way to do so and it is to grant Turkey membership and start an action of cultural and economic growth." Elsewhere in his remarks, the The 12-year-long accession talks were effectively halted after Turkey began a massive crackdown on the coup suspects. The EU reacted strongly to Ankara’s purging of thousands of people from organizations and institutions over alleged links to the coup attempt. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ...thus the need for hostages. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-10-02 06:55 |