EU DREAM IS FAR - WAIT A MINUTE, IT SEEMS TURKEY IS NOT DREAMING ABOUT IT ANYMORE
27/11/2016
YesterdayEuropean Parliament made a resolution to freeze EU membership negotiations withTurkey because of so-called Turkish disrespect to human rights, martial law, debatesabout Lausanne Treaty and probability of re-introducing death sentence. Actually,many influential leaders like Merkel insisted on the continuity of relationsregardless of everything. Yesterday morning Central Bank increased interestrates and the value of dollar decreased. Following EP resolution, the value ofdollar increased again. Grand National Assembly of Turkey strongly condemnedthe event. It has been announced that European Commission approval needed tomake it legally binding.Additional to EPdecision, Austria suspended arms sale due to collective redundancy, arrestedjournalists, scholars and civil life losses caused by military operations.Austrian Green Party Security Policies Department Spokesman Peter Pliz saidthat Austria is the first state which imposed sanctions against AKP governmentand he invited whole European states to do the same. It is not the firstattempt against Turkey by Austria. Recently in this Summer, there was a crisisas Austrian officials put a writing on a board in Vienna Airport as ‘’ By goingto Turkey for your holiday, you are just supporting Erdogan.’’ After Turkishdebates of entering Shanghai Five instead of EU, today President Erdoğan said ifEU do more things against Turkey, Turkey will open borders to refugees to go toEurope. He said that Europe only cared to humanitarian crisis after somesensational events like baby Aylan or Ümran’s picture has been spread throughthe media or when fifty thousand Syrian refugees beat a path to Europe’s door.They only tried to prevent the pass of Syrian refugees to Europe. He accused Europe to be deceptive about theirso-called humanitarianism. He repeated his famous sentence as ‘’World is biggerthan five ‘’ (5 permanent members of UNSC), highlighted the importance of humanand Turkish humanitarianism. Besides He called for reformations in UNSC andacknowledged Turkish determination about being just and requested not to caremuch to international reactions.