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PaulB, you sadly seem to forget that we do not have a Tory Government!! Words from BarryW!
Also, the EU is a sideline issue, word from BarryW who has put up threads of brimstone and fire against the EU!
Anyway, some issues to take into account concerning Turkey: The Turkish-speaking population has an average birthrate that is higher than most European countries, with the exception of the Muslim Albanians in Albania and Kosovo.
The Kurdish-speaking population of Turkey has a birth-rate on average of about twelve children per family, possibly ten children, similar to the Palestinians, and I believe it is the highest birth-rate in the world.
In the past years, Turkey has done a lot to be fairer towards the Kurds and their culture, and the Kurds of Turkey, as Turkish citizens, have massively expanded from Turkish Kurdistan to other parts of Turkey, includimg Istanbul. So nothing to say against Turkish policies here, as the Kurds of Turkey have their best friends in the Turkish-speaking population, who allow them freedom of settlement anywhere in Turkey!
Germany has a very large population of Turks and Kurds, both groups from Turkey. The Turkish Kurds tend to define themselves as being from Anatolia. The German government a few years back, whose views were publicly expressed by Mrs. Merkel (CDU), stated that Turkey should not join the EU, and noted that Turkey has special economic priviledged relations with Germany, in other words a favoured trading agreement that priviledges Turkey. The Germans generally consider this a concession to Turkey that should be enough to exclude Turkish membership of the EU.
If millions of Kurds started emigrating to Germany and Britain, the population increase here and in Germany would lead to a change in national identity within a few decades, as each Kurdish family would have about ten children. Now does anyone think that the Germans, who have millions of people living in Germany who consider themselves as Turkish or Kurdish even when they are from the third generation born in Germany, would accept Turkey joining the EU and millions more people just emigrating to Germany, and then having a birthrate of five to ten children per family?
I don't know what Mr. Cameron or the Tory peers think, but I do know that they receive a salary that goes way beyond that what most people here receive. They also have guaranteed jobs.
But they also seem to be making decisions that concern other countries, such as Germany, and not only Britain, when advocating that Turkey should join the EU.
Are they aware of what they are actually doing and could be causing? May-be they forgot that there are also other countries in the EU who could be affected by their decisions!!
