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[Alpeis]

Look how the Turks complain and without shame; blame others (Cyprus) and demand inclusion in everything!

.... From NATO to EU to involvement in every world matter.

The wheels of Turkish Expansionism never cease!


Turkey's frustration over by being sidelined by the European Union and its long dispute with Cyprus are hindering NATO-EU relations.
Diplomats told Reuters earlier this year that due to pressure from Turkey, NATO troops in Afghanistan were not sharing plans and documents about the security situation with EUPOL, the EU's police training force there.

They said Turkey was refusing to accept any agreements on mutual security between NATO and the EU, and that EUPOL had to strike agreements with each country instead -- which they said was dangerous and caused uncertainty among troops.
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idU ... IU20090904

Why don't you focus on your own country's issues rather than Turkey, Afghanistan, EUPOL bla bla...

Perhaps you have trouble understanding, but if Turkey is blackmailing NATO operations by demanding removal of its obstacle to EU entry (CYPRUS-problem) ... then I think it is extremely relevant for us to take note!

It also gives as an idea of how desperate Turkey is to join the EU which ridicules those poor attempts at pretence that they can do without the EU ...

One thing u all always refuse to understand: Turkey will never become a EU member and she has been well aware of it for decades! Therefore Cyprus problem is just a political tool for her. Turkey has been getting closer to the Muslim countries in the east for many years which I believe is a completely wrong move...
The North Cyprus may become a EU member in the future but Turkey will never be so!

[insan]

Look how the Turks complain and without shame; blame others (Cyprus) and demand inclusion in everything!

.... From NATO to EU to involvement in every world matter.

The wheels of Turkish Expansionism never cease!


Turkey's frustration over by being sidelined by the European Union and its long dispute with Cyprus are hindering NATO-EU relations.
Diplomats told Reuters earlier this year that due to pressure from Turkey, NATO troops in Afghanistan were not sharing plans and documents about the security situation with EUPOL, the EU's police training force there.

They said Turkey was refusing to accept any agreements on mutual security between NATO and the EU, and that EUPOL had to strike agreements with each country instead -- which they said was dangerous and caused uncertainty among troops.
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idU ... IU20090904

Why don't you focus on your own country's issues rather than Turkey, Afghanistan, EUPOL bla bla...

Perhaps you have trouble understanding, but if Turkey is blackmailing NATO operations by demanding removal of its obstacle to EU entry (CYPRUS-problem) ... then I think it is extremely relevant for us to take note!

It also gives as an idea of how desperate Turkey is to join the EU which ridicules those poor attempts at pretence that they can do without the EU ...

One thing u all always refuse to understand: Turkey will never become a EU member and she has been well aware of it for decades! Therefore Cyprus problem is just a political tool for her. Turkey has been getting closer to the Muslim countries in the east for many years which I believe is a completely wrong move...
The North Cyprus may become a EU member in the future but Turkey will never be so!

If so; how do the US-EU plan globalizing the world without Turkey and rest of the world?

[Oracle]

Terrorist expansionist, self-interested Turkey refuses Rasmussen's logical request to let Cyprus join NATO ...


Turkey, Cyprus and NATO

Fogh in the Aegean

Sep 10th 2009 | ANKARA


Fogh Rasmussen under Turkish scrutiny

THE (perhaps vain) hope of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s newish secretary-general, when he visited Greece and Turkey recently was to get these hostile NATO members to set aside their longstanding rivalry so as to improve co-operation between the alliance and the European Union. Turkey objects to this because of a Greek and Cypriot block on its own participation in EU military planning, and on its putative membership of the European Defence Agency. As Mr Fogh Rasmussen complains, this means NATO cannot formally protect EU policemen in Afghanistan. “It’s a security issue. It’s absurd,” he says.

Turkey, which has NATO’s second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen’s candidacy for NATO’s top job because he was Denmark’s prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.

Mr Fogh Rasmussen’s choice of Ramadan as the time to visit Turkey was calculated to ease Muslim anger. He took part in a lavish iftar (breaking of the fast) organised by the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It was, says Mr Fogh Rasmussen, “a clear manifestation” of his respect for Islam. Yet his Turkish hosts remained unswayed. His request for combat troops for Afghanistan seems to have been rebuffed, as were his entreaties that Turkey allow Cyprus to join NATO. But at least he wangled a commitment of more Turkish troops to work on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.

Mr Fogh Rasmussen concedes that, unless and until the Cyprus dispute is resolved, there is little chance of a big improvement in NATO’s relations with the EU. Turkey does not recognise the Greek-Cypriot government. Its continuing refusal to open ports and airports to Greek-Cypriot carriers may yet lead to a freezing of its EU membership negotiations later this year.

Mr Fogh Rasmussen wants pragmatism to prevail because the “lives of our forces are at risk”. He suggests that “the EU must accept a security arrangement with Turkey, and NATO a security arrangement with Cyprus”. Yet Greece recently protested that eight Turkish fighter jets had flown dangerously close to a Rhodes-bound Greek passenger aircraft. Western diplomats talk of a marked escalation in dogfights between Turkish and Greek pilots over the Aegean. Another NATO crisis in the making?


http://www.economist.com/world/europe/d ... d=14416843