Ankara has had a shabby deal from Brussels over its bid for EU membership, says Daniel Hannan.
28th July 2010
I like Daniel Hannan, but on this topic he’s full of shit. However shabby a deal Turkey may have gotten from the E.U., it’s less shabby than they deserve. Turkey is not a European country in any meaningful sense — indeed, one of the definitive experiences in European history is the centuries-long effort to keep Turkey the hell out of Europe — and it doesn’t belong in the E.U.
Turkey has been a drag on European civilization since the Seljuks stole Anatolia from the Byzantines a thousand years ago, and eventually Europe will wake up to the fact that no Muslim country is anything other than a long-term enemy of Europe and its civilization (what there is left).