Get off your high horse/don’t forget EU is culpable in Erdoğan’s rise & in pushing Turkey towards Islamism by dragging its feet for decades.https://twitter.com/TheProgressives/status/853888491104677888 …
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Where the fuck were you when liberal Turkish governments were trying to make progress on ascension?https://twitter.com/aral/status/853890766321700864 …
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Sorry - which liberal governments ? Only Erdogan's AKP did reforms to make progress on ascension & that was in fact for their own agenda.
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There were progressive governments that tried to work towards EU accession.
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Here’s Çiller’s words on it for a start:http://www.danielpipes.org/6306/tansu-ciller-secularism-indispensable-turkey …
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Ciller was a ultra-corrupted failure who brought us on the brink of a war against Greece, may not be a good example of EU integration policy
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Yes, she was. You asked for an example of a govt that was secular/progressive and wanted to move ahead with accession.
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Right, but these were only words as I said. They did nothing. Remember how this helped AKP building their argument "They talk, AKP delivers"
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Just read Ciller itw. Interesting reminder of topics at stake in economics & foreign policy in the 90's. She talks-yet delivered on nothing.
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