And They Want Entry Into The Eu?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-marry-rapist-bill-child-marriage-a9296681.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1579715100

Barbaric!!!

[naomi24]

This has been on the cards for a long time. The country has gone backwards under the current regime.

[klazomaniac]

Another source for those that can't access the Indi.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1232560/turkey-news-women-rape-marriage-law-marry-your-rapist-latest-bill

I'm speachless at what I have just read !

[Bobbisox1]

Thanks Klaz

[New Judge]

Turkey first applied to join the club in 1987 but it was not until 2005 that formal negotiations got under way. Their progress has been slow. Only one of the 33 required "chapters" of negotiation have been completed and the negotiations have now largely come to a halt as the EU believes that Turkey is moving further away from the EU's ideals and values. Never mind, there's vacancy at the table after next Friday so they may speed up a little.

[fender62]

Kemal Ataturk would be turning in his grave, islam has nothing good to offer, it's retrograde in all respects, like communism it creats fear and suspicion, think the correct proscribed thoughts or else!
shame as turkeys a beautiful country...

[Bobbisox1]

Wasn’t fussed on Marmaris Fender :0/ wrong resort for us I think

[ludwig]

Barbarians.

[fender62]

Bobbisox1, i agree used to be nice, now its like blackpool in the sun or benidorm..there are nicer place i assure you.

[Bobbisox1]

Can’t remember where but we did go over from Santorini to another place, that was quite nice

[ichkeria]

Turkey it seems lost interest in EU membership some while back.
It is not a serious aspiration of the current regime

[fender62]

Fethiye oludeniz blue lagoon was nice, have not been for a while
my daughter recently went and liked it.

[Bobbisox1]

My niece had a villa in Fethiye but has since sold it

[retrocop]

//At a summit in 2014, President Erdogan said: “You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature.”

In 2016, he urged women to have at least three children, saying: “A woman who says ‘because I am working I will not be a mother’ is actually denying her femininity. A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.”//

That's not from a Muslim fanatical terrorist.
That is from the leader of a country that just happens to be Muslim.
His dictats will go down a bomb with the Germans and Swedes who have already had a taste of how Muslim men regard women when they are welcomed into their country.
We are getting out thank God.

[fender62]

retrocop, i agree..but if you have an educated generation, they will see through erdogan's words, turks are not stupid, he's old school, and not progressive..he wont live forever.

[jno]

they lost interest in the EU when they realised that France would never let them in. Before that they were trying to institutionalise EU values; now they're getting their influences from further east. Under the same circumstances Ataturk might well have done the same. An opportunity missed there, I think.

[Khandro]

Erdogan doesn't really want to join the EU, he wants the EU to join him in a new Ottoman Empire of which he is the sultan. The man is a power-mad dangerous maniac, hence his recent call for all Muslim countries to join forces & destroy Israel.

[fender62]

i think if Ataturk were alive turkey would be in the eu already and perhaps all the repressive islamic regimes would have followed suit
in western values...who knows, they would have been better for it.

[retrocop]

//but if you have an educated generation//
Just like Hitler it appears the intelligentsia in Turkey were rounded up with the judiciary and press. when they tried an unsuccessful coup.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm gradually concluding that most countries are in the dark ages with factions vying for power, and once achieved wielding it as they wish. Thank goodness for democracy. It may have faults, and nowhere put into practice properly, but for now it's the best we have. And to think, when I was a kid, I believed our planet had left that past behind and we were at the stage of just putting in finishing touches in more unfortunate parts of the globe.

Turkey was supposed to be a democracy, but does it really qualify even against the flawed examples elsewhere ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37883006

[fender62]

Old_Geezer, that old time religion garners believers, bit like hitler our misfortune has a blame...