Will Turkey Become a Member of the E.U. Now? Here’s What to Know.
If Turkey becomes an EU member, it will immediately be the most populace EU member, with about 85 million compared to second-place Germany with about 83 million (some sizable number of which are actually Turks). Those Turks would have the right to go anywhere in the EU and settle; any “migrants” who get to Turkey – certainly easier than getting to Italy or France – would immediately be able to go anywhere in the EU and live on the local taxpayers dimes. This will flood Europe with non-Europeans (even more so than is happening already) who have neither the desire nor intention of assimilating into the local cultures. As Turkey is officially in Asia, not Europe, being in the EU would be just weird regardless of all other arguments.
The Turks in the form of the Ottoman Empire spent the better part of a millennium invading and attempting to conquer Europe; their main remaining success is Turkish-occupied Constantinople. If the EU admits Turkey, that conquest could finally be completed, without the need to fire a single shot.
Turkey seems to believe that they will finally receive EU membership after agreeing to let Sweden join NATO. Which, again, is weird… the EU is not NATO, NATO is not the EU. But if they are correct… better by far for Turkey to be booted from NATO and Sweden admitted than to let the Ottomans conquer Europe at long last.
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“Turkish-occupied Constantinople”
My dad immigrated to the U.S. from Greece. He never, ever, ever called it “Istanbul.”
I suspect that Greece will object rather strenuously to any attempt to admit Turkey into the EU.
Most of the futures I foresee are pretty bleak. But there is one bright possible better world, one where Greater Israel extends to Damascus and Greece encompasses the western half of Asia Minor. In that world, will the new golden city be called Constantinople again… or Byzantium?
Unfortunately, I see that particular possibility as somewhat less likely than Canada being attacked by a horde of Jackie Chan clones wearing DS9 Starfleet uniforms and singing the Horst Wessel song.
It would totally be Byzantium, BTW.
But there is one bright possible better world, one where Greater Israel extends to Damascus …
Check the ending of Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade.
Snark aside, like a lot of the political flatulence floating around these days, there isn’t really a path to success without some serious attitude changes.
For these guys, the EU has to be all encompassing to meet its humanitarian and post-national goals, but to actually function it has to be exclusive. What happens as Scott indicated is that one faction will come to control the apparatus and take the whole thing in an unexpected direction. The West seems destined to self terminate trying to fulfill impossible ideals, ironically leaving the way open for those who embody the opposite of those goals. As with any fanatic ideation, they see the world as they wish it, not what it actually is.