Turkish entry to the EU... maybe not

[ASB]

Can't we boot Italy out then? Apparently they have more land set-aside than there is actual agricultural land. Would save the EU a packet.

I think that's Olive subsidies. Also it was Greece.

The Italians did seem to feel hard done to and were trying very hard to rectify the situation and overtake the Greeks.

[threaded]

Yes, we can't be having countries in the EU if they shoot their judges. Not in addition to Italy, anyway.

Can't we boot Italy out then? Apparently they have more land set-aside than there is actual agricultural land. Would save the EU a packet.

[sasguru]

Are there lots of Turkish restaurants in Notting hill? Can you get a decent Turkish Nanny or Plumber? Can you get a cheap (free) holiday there? How much baksheesh do they pay to EU ministers?

You contractors always moaning about the minor inconveniences like concreting over your squalid little 5 bedroom houses we have 13 bedroom taxpayer funded mansions you know. Let your betters worry about important things.


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Two Shags and Phoney B'liar.

edited to keep spelling police happy.

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[vetran]

is their Eurovision song any good?

Are there lots of Turkish restaurants in Notting hill? Can you get a decent Turkish Nanny or Plumber? Can you get a cheap (free) holiday there? How much baksheesh do they pay to EU ministers?

You contractors always moaning about the minor inconveniences like concreting over your squalid little 5 bedroom houses we have 13 bedroom taxpayer funded mansions you know. Let your betters worry about important things.


signed

Two Shags and Phoney B'liar.

edited to keep spelling police happy.

[thunderlizard]

Yes, we can't be having countries in the EU if they shoot their judges. Not in addition to Italy, anyway.

[Dalek Supreme]

On Skaro, surely.

I hope so. Skaro justice is quite fast moving...

[stackpole]

I knew it was our fault really. I expect the wounded judges will be filing for compensation in the UK.

On Skaro, surely.

[Dalek Supreme]

Didn't that Lawrence chap do something beastly to the Turks, or was it t'other way around?

I knew it was our fault really. I expect the wounded judges will be filing for compensation in the UK. After all, it was our vile colonialist past and hatred for Islam that made the gunman do it.

[threaded]

Hang on a mo, didn't Fungus say this sort of thing doesn't happen in moderate Islamic countries, only in Islamic countries run by crackpot dictators that were victims of western colonialism?

Didn't that Lawrence chap do something beastly to the Turks, or was it t'other way around?

[Dalek Supreme]

Hang on a mo, didn't Fungus say this sort of thing doesn't happen in moderate Islamic countries, only in Islamic countries run by crackpot dictators that were victims of western colonialism?

[DimPrawn]

Turkey joins the EU, and bingo 1,000,000 extra muslims in the UK, many of which will be hardline fundamentalist types.

And as EU citizens they will have every right to be here, just as you have the right to go live in their backward peasant country (should you have a death wish).


It's only "fair"

[Gold Dalek]

Gunman shoots Turkey court judges

The judges were in session when an armed man burst in
A gunman has opened fire inside Turkey's highest court in Ankara injuring five judges, two seriously.
There were scenes of panic at the Council of State - the top administrative court - as the injured were carried out of the building.

The attacker, believed to be a lawyer, was detained by police and is being questioned but his motive is not clear.

One of the wounded judges had been criticised for ruling against teachers wearing Muslim headscarves.

Judge Mustafa Birden made headlines earlier this year when he ruled that schoolteachers, who are banned from wearing the Islamic headscarf at work, could not cover their heads even on their way to school.

He has reportedly received death threats since then, and an Islamist newspaper has printed photographs of him and fellow judges from the court's second chamber, which deals with education issues.

Turkey is being dragged into a very dangerous situation - everybody should come to their senses

Judge Birden was shot in the stomach and has undergone surgery. Doctors said his injuries were not life-threatening.

However Judge Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin was shot in the head and was in a critical condition, doctors said.

The attacker was apparently carrying papers that identified him as a lawyer - though it is not known if these were genuine - and made it past security guards undetected.

He reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is great) as he fired his weapon.

Tansel Colasan, deputy head of the Council of State, said the attacker yelled "I am the soldier of God", and said he was carrying out the attack to protest against the court's decision on headscarves.

He was arrested immediately.

Political row

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul says the attack has helped fuel widespread speculation that the court was targeted for its strict, some say hardline, adherence to secular principles.

The court's decision on headscarves has been condemned as illegal by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose ruling party has Islamist roots.