From Turkey with Love
Turkey is now attempting to join the next greatest power on earth, the European Union. The key provisions for entry into this Christian club of European nations are many:
(1) Turkey must sign a customs accord extending to all EU members, including Cyprus.
(2) The accord must be signed by the start of entry talks, proposed for October 2005.
(3) Membership talks will be open-ended.
(4) There is no guarantee of full membership if conditions are met.
Even if Turkey should prostrate itself fully to European standards, a single nation within the Union could veto her entry with a no vote. The most likely culprit would be the French as they are fond to keep their culture extant within the Union. There is a lot of lip service given to the world about how important Turkey is to the Union, however, ancient history is more powerful than the ambitions and agendas of the collective states of the EU.
I believe the "hinge of fate" will force the door CLOSED on Ankara. Turkey will be shut out for several practical and historical reasons:
1) Turkey is a moslem nation. There is no denying this overiding fact and the way of the Moslem is not the way of European. Yes, the state may be "secular" however, the vast population practices Islam in some form or another which has its own circular problems endemic with its history that has never been addressed in a satisfactory way and perhaps never can, namely corruption. There is some talk that Islam can reform itself, which is nonsense. Islam's greatest enemy is peace for with it comes putrefaction of its basic tenents which embrace conflict as a means for spreading Islam. Freedom, peace and prosperity eats away at its lure and results in believers losing their way.
2) Turkey is a Eurabian power. Turkey is in Europe but is not of Europe. They are of a Turkic race which has its origins in Central Asia and after defeating the Byzantines in Asia Minor never took on the Hellene Culture which may have made them more acceptable to the Roman West. Like the Russians, they may play a part in Europe however they are tied irrevocalbly to the East. Like the Russians to the North, the Turks in the South form a bridge between Europe and the Middle East and are neither entirely centered in either one. Thus they are pulled in two directions at once. However, history points the way, for the Turks embraced Islam from the beginning of their existence and will therefore fall into the Moslem orbit.
3) For the European Union to work effectively, cultural unity is paramount. Roman Catholicism binds the European together and has done so for nearly 2000 years. If Rome could not abide with Christian Eastern Orthodoxy located in Constantnople thus resulting in the great schism, how can it abide with a more hostile religion in Instanbul? Cultural unity vis a vis Rome will not be acceptable to the average Turk. If Spain, Austria, Italy and France have their say, I suspect they will leave Ankara to its own devices.
The Ottoman Empire still extant in its current dimunitve form can take the lead for a United Islamic Front to compete with the European Union. It has absorbed as much as it can from the West since the end of WWI and now must make a decision to either follow Europe or lead the Mohammaden to greater glory in the future by forging a unifying force for moslems in the Middle East.
(1) Turkey must sign a customs accord extending to all EU members, including Cyprus.
(2) The accord must be signed by the start of entry talks, proposed for October 2005.
(3) Membership talks will be open-ended.
(4) There is no guarantee of full membership if conditions are met.
Even if Turkey should prostrate itself fully to European standards, a single nation within the Union could veto her entry with a no vote. The most likely culprit would be the French as they are fond to keep their culture extant within the Union. There is a lot of lip service given to the world about how important Turkey is to the Union, however, ancient history is more powerful than the ambitions and agendas of the collective states of the EU.
I believe the "hinge of fate" will force the door CLOSED on Ankara. Turkey will be shut out for several practical and historical reasons:
1) Turkey is a moslem nation. There is no denying this overiding fact and the way of the Moslem is not the way of European. Yes, the state may be "secular" however, the vast population practices Islam in some form or another which has its own circular problems endemic with its history that has never been addressed in a satisfactory way and perhaps never can, namely corruption. There is some talk that Islam can reform itself, which is nonsense. Islam's greatest enemy is peace for with it comes putrefaction of its basic tenents which embrace conflict as a means for spreading Islam. Freedom, peace and prosperity eats away at its lure and results in believers losing their way.
2) Turkey is a Eurabian power. Turkey is in Europe but is not of Europe. They are of a Turkic race which has its origins in Central Asia and after defeating the Byzantines in Asia Minor never took on the Hellene Culture which may have made them more acceptable to the Roman West. Like the Russians, they may play a part in Europe however they are tied irrevocalbly to the East. Like the Russians to the North, the Turks in the South form a bridge between Europe and the Middle East and are neither entirely centered in either one. Thus they are pulled in two directions at once. However, history points the way, for the Turks embraced Islam from the beginning of their existence and will therefore fall into the Moslem orbit.
3) For the European Union to work effectively, cultural unity is paramount. Roman Catholicism binds the European together and has done so for nearly 2000 years. If Rome could not abide with Christian Eastern Orthodoxy located in Constantnople thus resulting in the great schism, how can it abide with a more hostile religion in Instanbul? Cultural unity vis a vis Rome will not be acceptable to the average Turk. If Spain, Austria, Italy and France have their say, I suspect they will leave Ankara to its own devices.
The Ottoman Empire still extant in its current dimunitve form can take the lead for a United Islamic Front to compete with the European Union. It has absorbed as much as it can from the West since the end of WWI and now must make a decision to either follow Europe or lead the Mohammaden to greater glory in the future by forging a unifying force for moslems in the Middle East.
posted by Bruce R. McConnell | 9:16 PM
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