Turan , not the EU

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Oct 29, 2009 at 16:18

Hi, Cheryl M !

You wrote :

> I suppose Turkey can kiss membership in the EU goodbye. Turkey is obviously closer to Iran and Syria than it is to Europe, too, and that fact won't be lost on the Europeans, as myopic as they are.<

I am not sure whether the Europeans will notice anything. They have their own Moslem jihdist states like Kosovo , Bosnia, Albania and the powerful Moslem Fifth Column inside the EU to keep them busy and increasingly dhimmi for the next few generations.

And as far as I understand the Turkish geopolitical bid for power it's not the EU where they could be at best a third-rate addition and liability but a Pan-Turkic Empire where they would play their favourite role of a Herrenvolk as during the Ottoman days the Turks are after. It is this Turkish-dominated Turan they have been deliriously dreaming of and striving to construct since the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the power vacuum in Central Asia created by it. It's there in Turan that the Turks hope to get the badly needed resources and Lebensraum to assert their will and values both against the EU and America which they deeply despise.

Where Enver Pasha failed his successors hope to succeed. In 1996 they even transfered Enver's alleged remains from the grave in Tajikistan where the Russians had killed him and re-buried them in a grand state funeral in Constantinople. Remarkably enough, although Enver was Mustafa Kemal Pasha's -Turkey's "secular" prophet's - worst enemy his state funeral 74 years after his violent death was attended by the whole Turkish power elite including president Suleyman Demirel, ministers, deputies and Turkey's top generals. Probably since Kemal's own funeral nobody in Turkey has enjoyed such a splendid burying ceremony. Well, in Turkey ghosts and wraiths guide the living.

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