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Yahoo!
News - TURKEY MOVES CLOSER TO E.U. MEMBERSHIP Georgie Anne Geyer is
a journalist who has been writing articles along the line of "look how nice the
West is" even as "the West" destabilize the very countries it is purporting to
help. It takes your breath away sometimes. Here she is writing about the good
effect of EU membership in Kurdish rights in Turkey. Fair enough. But .... She
never mentions that the Kurds have had their rights violated under the watchful
eye of NATO, of which Turkey is a leading member. Anyway, below is my post to
her story. Read this first, ten read her story.
"Ms Geyer
Please
write a column on how the denial of minority rights of ethnic Kurds in Turkey
and ethnic Macedonians in Greece is by definition a "value" of NATO and the EU.
The fact that the EU can say to Turkey, that human rights for Kurds is
essential for membership, while at the same time saying that mistreatment of
ethnic Macedonians in Greece is OK. Not only that, but the Republic of Macedonia
has to change its name, the name of the Macedonian language and the name of the
Macedonian Orthodox Church.
If it was Jews, this policy would be called
anti-semitism, if it was was Africans, it woould be called racism, if it Native
Americans, it would be called "cultural genocide"
Because it is
happening in the EU today, Macedonians call it LIFE!
The EU policy in
the Balkans has been the most de-stabilizing force since the collapse of the
Berlin wall."
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Posted by David Edenden to
The
Macedonian Tendency at 11/29/2004 08:30:37 AM