I was desperately looking for something positive about Turkey in the press.
I failed to find anything, but wanted to share this article, commenting on the Prime Minister’s various speeches. Not only this article, but the comments that follow serve to underline the nonsense that is going on here – one comment talked about “the bridge to the twelfth century”. My sentiments exactly.
I’ll let you know as soon as something good happens.
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Perhaps Turkey just likes making headlines, under the impression that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
“Turkish President Abdullah Gul has accused the EU of interfering after Ankara was asked to reconsider an invitation to the president of Sudan.
Omar al-Bashir has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). But Mr Gul said he was invited to a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), not for bilateral talks with Turkish officials.
Turkey, which has applied for EU membership, does not recognise the ICC.
It says it has no plans to arrest Mr Bashir, who is due to attend an OIC economic summit in Istanbul on Sunday and Monday. Turkey insists it is not shifting away from its traditionally close ties to the West.”
Perhaps “shifting away” loses something in translation.
Source: Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/8347419.stm
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