Since when is Turkey part of Europe?

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Nathan S said:
Turkey is on the short list of countries that will be admitted to the European Union. They've been pursuing this for some time now, and their admission in the near future is almost certain. Though I think they'd fit in better if their youth, moslem or otherwise, were a tad less abstemious .... ;)
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THAT must have been what I was thinking about.
 
clearblue said:
If Syria trys to attack Turkey from the rear,do you think Greece would help? ;) :D
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Help whom :rolleyes:

Joke aside, they are both NATO members and attack on on of NATO members means that other members need to help the attacked member out - this has never been put into practice before to the best of my knowledge but the option is clearly there. The extent of the help is a whole different thing ...
 
clearblue said:
If Syria trys to attack Turkey from the rear,do you think Greece would help? ;) :D
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I don't know, some countries would go to the head of the matter.;) :D
 
I've heard that the Syrians, being dedicated Muslims, would be loathe to leave the Turks---BEHIND ---greece notwithstanding. :p
 
They are on the virge of becoming EU members, the US air force has a large base in Turkey Inçirlik which they use as a base for north Iraq and afhanistan operations. The problem for them becoming a EU member is that all EU members have freedom to travel, commerce and work in another EU country. This means that the richer counrties will be flooded by Turkish workers who are willing to work for 20% wage as the Belgium workers are. Next step is that they invest our Belgium money to built factory's in Turkey with a Belgium boss and turkish workers, with European money. Guess who gets rich and who pays, and losses his jobs. Same problem with the joining of Poland into the EU. How can a Belgium firm who pays his workers 1500 Euro's per month compete with a Polish firm that will do the job for 500 Euro's?

Why, because the rich don't mind that one of their CEO's lives in Poland or Turkey and runs a local factory as long as he can make massive profit.
 
faramir said:
Help whom :rolleyes:

Joke aside, they are both NATO members and attack on on of NATO members means that other members need to help the attacked member out - this has never been put into practice before to the best of my knowledge but the option is clearly there. The extent of the help is a whole different thing ...
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Don't know about helping the other out, but we sure as hell put restrictions on them when Greece and Turkey were wanting to battle each other. You can't use our toys against each other...
 
clearblue said:
If Syria trys to attack Turkey from the rear,do you think Greece would help? ;) :D
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Wouldn't much matter. U.S. would blow Syria back into the stone age. Then raise the issue of the draft because we're stretched pretty thin already. I have no problem w/ the Iraq war, but we gotta do one thing at a time! :) Let's hope we can finish up with Iraq before we go to war again.

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Loki, they can try to compete in quality / R&D (areas where countries with cheap labor and totally underdeveloped R&D can't compete).

Then again, you could just get filthy rich by the time Turkey is admitted into the EU, purchase shares of the companies you mentioend and voila, you'll be glad to have the products manufactured at lower cost :D Gotta love the smell of capitalism in the morning ...(unemployed and handicapped, what a prospect :grumpy: )
 
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