• EatingOnions@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 hour ago

    Maybe rule of law and democracy has something to do with it? Erdogan just jailed another opposition leader, what about Turkey do something about it before complaining why they can’t join EU? What about stop occupying Cyprus?

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      31 minutes ago

      It’s not just that, there were also a lot of racist undertones coming from Germany.

      I followed that a lot back in the day and it was mostly Germany being afraid of Turkish people getting into the EU.

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        10 minutes ago

        That sounds like baseless claim, there’s about 3mil Turkish people / Turkish descent born in Germany and about 7mil Turkish immigrants living in EU, nobody is afraid of them. What people are afraid of is Turkish politics that are far from being ready to join EU, they’ve shown over and over again they don’t care about democracy or law, they want to join to suck up money and save their failing economy