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4/21/18
Turkish EU relations minister slams Netherlands, Austria for undemocratic move over election campaign
Turkish EU Relations Minister U Minister Ömer Çelik criticized the
"It is evident that Austrian Chancellor [Sebastian Kurz] and Dutch [Prime Minister Mark Rutte] do not base such decisions on democratic values and greet anti-Turkey and racist political movements," Çelik said, adding that these leaders contribute to the growth of racist groups which oppose European values.
The minister urged the Netherlands and Austria to act using commonsense and refrain from damaging democratic values, which threatens the rise of populism and animosity in the political sphere.
Netherlands' "undemocratic" decision to follow Austria's lead to ban Turkish politicians from campaigning for the upcoming snap elections in Turkey, accusing both countries of hypocrisy for being in favor of democracy in Europe but the opposite outside of the bloc.
In a statement posted on his official Twitter account, Çelik said that the leaders of both countries welcome anti-Turkey and xenophobic political movements.
He criticized the hypocritical stance of both countries by saying that they should not defend democracy solely for the bloc but should defend the same principles when it comes to countries outside of the bloc.
"If they really want their words regarding democracy to be credible, they should make decisions without the influence of anti-Turkey sentiment" he added.
Austrian Prime Minister Kurz announced Friday that his country will ban Turkish politicians from holding meetings in the country, which has a sizeable Turkish minority.
The Dutch PM followed Kurz's lead and also said any campaign event regarding the snap elections would not be welcome in his country.
Relations between Turkey and some European countries, including the Netherlands, Austria and Germany were significantly damaged last year during the constitutional referendum. Turkish ministers and politicians in favor of a "yes" vote for the referendum were banned from holding rallies, while those in favor of the "no" vote freely hytelany interference.
Note EU-Digest: If President Erdogan likes it or not, it is high time the EU Commission launches a law which prohibits foreign immigrants, who have become European citizens, to vote in elections of their country of origin, and prohibits foreign politicians to campaign in the EU on behalf of their own local campaigns. This is not only a question of Democracy, but also one which guarantees the sovereignty of nations without foreign intervention on any level.
Read more: EU minister slams Netherlands, Austria for undemocratic move over election campaign - Daily Sabah
"It is evident that Austrian Chancellor [Sebastian Kurz] and Dutch [Prime Minister Mark Rutte] do not base such decisions on democratic values and greet anti-Turkey and racist political movements," Çelik said, adding that these leaders contribute to the growth of racist groups which oppose European values.
The minister urged the Netherlands and Austria to act using commonsense and refrain from damaging democratic values, which threatens the rise of populism and animosity in the political sphere.
Netherlands' "undemocratic" decision to follow Austria's lead to ban Turkish politicians from campaigning for the upcoming snap elections in Turkey, accusing both countries of hypocrisy for being in favor of democracy in Europe but the opposite outside of the bloc.
In a statement posted on his official Twitter account, Çelik said that the leaders of both countries welcome anti-Turkey and xenophobic political movements.
He criticized the hypocritical stance of both countries by saying that they should not defend democracy solely for the bloc but should defend the same principles when it comes to countries outside of the bloc.
"If they really want their words regarding democracy to be credible, they should make decisions without the influence of anti-Turkey sentiment" he added.
Austrian Prime Minister Kurz announced Friday that his country will ban Turkish politicians from holding meetings in the country, which has a sizeable Turkish minority.
The Dutch PM followed Kurz's lead and also said any campaign event regarding the snap elections would not be welcome in his country.
Relations between Turkey and some European countries, including the Netherlands, Austria and Germany were significantly damaged last year during the constitutional referendum. Turkish ministers and politicians in favor of a "yes" vote for the referendum were banned from holding rallies, while those in favor of the "no" vote freely hytelany interference.
Note EU-Digest: If President Erdogan likes it or not, it is high time the EU Commission launches a law which prohibits foreign immigrants, who have become European citizens, to vote in elections of their country of origin, and prohibits foreign politicians to campaign in the EU on behalf of their own local campaigns. This is not only a question of Democracy, but also one which guarantees the sovereignty of nations without foreign intervention on any level.
Read more: EU minister slams Netherlands, Austria for undemocratic move over election campaign - Daily Sabah
3/23/16
EU Security A Complete Mess : No Organization - No "Chiefs" - No "Indians" - and extremely poor coordination
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| EU Security Coordination In Poor Shape |
Despite the knowledge, the intelligence and security apparatus in Brussels — home to most of the European Union agencies — was limited and ill-prepared to handle the alert,
In other developments Wednesday, March 23, Turkey’s prime minister said his country last year arrested one of the Brussels attackers and deported him to the Netherlands, but Belgium ignored warnings that he was a militant.
“One of the Brussels attackers was detained in Gaziantep (in southern Turkey (close to the Syrian border) and then deported” to the Netherlands, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters about Ibrahim El Bakraoui.
Turkey said it warned both Belgium and the Netherlands that Ibrahim was a “foreign terrorist fighter.”
Dutch authorities later allowed him to go free because Belgian authorities could not establish any ties to terrorism, an official in the Turkish president’s office said.
Turkey formally notified Belgium of the 29-year-old Belgian national’s deportation on July 14, 2015.
The announcement came after authorities said they discovered a cache of explosives in a house and a farewell note from an airport suicide bomber — one of two brothers identified in the attacks.
The brothers were identified as Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, both of whom had extensive criminal records but had not been on watch lists as potential terror threats.
What Europe does not have is any cross-national agency with the power to carry out its own investigation and make its own arrests.
This means that cross-border policing in the European Union has big holes. It depends heavily on informal cooperation rather than formal institutions with independent authority.
Sometimes this works reasonably well. Sometimes this works particularly badly. Belgium is a notorious problem case, because its policing arrangements are heavily localized.
In the past, many Belgian policing forces have had difficulty cooperating with each other, let alone with other European forces.
Europe has to put some serious thought into setting up a "Pan European Security Network" to coordinate, trace, find, capture and if need be, eliminate security threats to its citizens. This has to happen pretty quickly.
EU-Digest
2/16/14
Netherlands will welcome Turkey as an EU member state says Dutch FM - "is he joking?"
Opening negotiation Chapters 23 and 24 with the European Union will
engage Turkey in the debate over the rule of law, visiting Dutch Foreign
Minister Frans Timmermans has said.
Timmermans voiced his personal support for opening the chapters but said his government and Parliament would have the final word on the issue.
“Because I believe there are arguments to be said in favor of doing this, because it will engage Turkey in the debate on issues having to do with rule of law. I believe it will be good to engage in these subjects,” he said at the sixth meeting of the Turkey-Netherlands Bilateral (Wittenburg) Conference on Feb. 14.
“The Netherlands will be one, once negotiations have finished, who gladly welcome Turkey among the EU member states. It’s only fair that the process that started with the intention of making Turkey a member of the EU should lead to its membership if we can conclude the negotiations in a positive way,” the Dutch minister said.
Turkey has gone through an amazing transformation in the last 10 years, Timmermans added.
“At some stage, Turkey will have to end its negotiations with the EU and Turkey will then make the choice whether to become a member of the EU,” he said.
Timmermans also stressed that his country was “honored” to send Patriots to Turkey to protect the Turkish-Syrian border.
“Turkey is taking care of our security with great effort. We are very grateful for those contributions for our collective security,” he said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, for his part, expressed Turkey’s expectation of support from the Netherlands on the opening of negotiation Chapters 23 and 24, along with support for new rounds of talks for the reunification of Cyprus.
On the other hand, when asked about Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent remarks that normalization with Israel was not possible without written protocol on the lift of the embargo on Gaza, Davutoğlu did not elaborate on the issue, but said “negotiations are continuing
Note EU-Digest: the Dutch Foreign Minister Timmermans must either be kidding or he must not know what has been going on in the Turkey of PM Erdogan, who is basically running his country these days like a dictatorship together with his AKP party. Locking up journalist, firing judges, appointing his own judges, changing the law to keep party members and even his son (and himself) out of jail for corruption.
Read more: Netherlands will welcome Turkey as an EU member state, Dutch FM says, 15 February 2014
Timmermans voiced his personal support for opening the chapters but said his government and Parliament would have the final word on the issue.
“Because I believe there are arguments to be said in favor of doing this, because it will engage Turkey in the debate on issues having to do with rule of law. I believe it will be good to engage in these subjects,” he said at the sixth meeting of the Turkey-Netherlands Bilateral (Wittenburg) Conference on Feb. 14.
“The Netherlands will be one, once negotiations have finished, who gladly welcome Turkey among the EU member states. It’s only fair that the process that started with the intention of making Turkey a member of the EU should lead to its membership if we can conclude the negotiations in a positive way,” the Dutch minister said.
Turkey has gone through an amazing transformation in the last 10 years, Timmermans added.
“At some stage, Turkey will have to end its negotiations with the EU and Turkey will then make the choice whether to become a member of the EU,” he said.
Timmermans also stressed that his country was “honored” to send Patriots to Turkey to protect the Turkish-Syrian border.
“Turkey is taking care of our security with great effort. We are very grateful for those contributions for our collective security,” he said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, for his part, expressed Turkey’s expectation of support from the Netherlands on the opening of negotiation Chapters 23 and 24, along with support for new rounds of talks for the reunification of Cyprus.
On the other hand, when asked about Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent remarks that normalization with Israel was not possible without written protocol on the lift of the embargo on Gaza, Davutoğlu did not elaborate on the issue, but said “negotiations are continuing
Note EU-Digest: the Dutch Foreign Minister Timmermans must either be kidding or he must not know what has been going on in the Turkey of PM Erdogan, who is basically running his country these days like a dictatorship together with his AKP party. Locking up journalist, firing judges, appointing his own judges, changing the law to keep party members and even his son (and himself) out of jail for corruption.
Read more: Netherlands will welcome Turkey as an EU member state, Dutch FM says, 15 February 2014
1/2/12
Moroccan Madness
In fact, that Moroccan Islamist Party (a.k.a. the Islamic Justice and Development Party, a.k.a. PJD) did prevail, winning 107 of 395 parliamentary seats, and Abdelilah Benkirane, the party leader, is now set to become that country’s prime minister.
The new leader was, on declaring victory, full of good cheer and merry, comforting predictions: “We are not trying to set up a religious regime or a Caliphate, as some suggest,” Benkirane promised French reporters. “This is absurd. We are in the year 2011.”
But are the new victors really so up to date? Such impassioned supporters of 2011 liberalism? The PJD has for a long time claimed to be inspired by Turkey’s version of the same party—and Turkey’s version, created a decade ago, has not heartened those who embrace the age-old Turkish passion for secularism (a Muslim anomaly that Prime Minister Recep Erdogan refers to, significantly, as “authoritarian secularism.”)
Among their most publicized efforts: the Turkish Islamists have tried to lift the ban on headscarves at universities and toughened the criteria for cafes that wish to sell alcohol.
For more: Moroccan Madness | World Affairs Journal
The new leader was, on declaring victory, full of good cheer and merry, comforting predictions: “We are not trying to set up a religious regime or a Caliphate, as some suggest,” Benkirane promised French reporters. “This is absurd. We are in the year 2011.”
But are the new victors really so up to date? Such impassioned supporters of 2011 liberalism? The PJD has for a long time claimed to be inspired by Turkey’s version of the same party—and Turkey’s version, created a decade ago, has not heartened those who embrace the age-old Turkish passion for secularism (a Muslim anomaly that Prime Minister Recep Erdogan refers to, significantly, as “authoritarian secularism.”)
Among their most publicized efforts: the Turkish Islamists have tried to lift the ban on headscarves at universities and toughened the criteria for cafes that wish to sell alcohol.
For more: Moroccan Madness | World Affairs Journal
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