ERDOGAN: OUR GOAL IS RESTORATION OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE MIGHT

Turkey’s goal is to live in peace with all countries and restore the might of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “I believe that each Turkish family should have at least three children. We believe in Turkey’s future and call on everybody to believe,” he said. Dwelling on Turkish-Russian relations, he described them as strategic. “Russia is our partner. The trade between our countries has reached $40 billion,” Milliyet newspaper quoted Erdogan as saying.

This was obvious - and my guess is that he wants to use the European Union to achieve that. A shortcut to power. After this [if this statement is factual] European nations have got to know - that Turkey's full membership in Europe Union is the wrong decision.

This kind of sentiment is not only coming from Erdogan's party but also the Turkish National[ist] Party who say that if they were elected they would restore the Ottoman Empire to its former glory - and more openly state their belief that the Turkish people are superior - as in a racial sense - to all mankind.

They are the third largest party - behind Erdogan's - with the second largest being the secular - though dated Atatürk supporters.

It doesn't look good for Europe.

A couple of questions - why is Turkey trying to become a member of the EU - why not join with the countries to the east - because the Turks conquered and colonized them once and they now only trust Turkey at arms length?

But then Turkey has a pipeline - we must all fall in line? At least that is what we are being sold.

What we have is a Turkey that wants to Islamize - is being prevented from doing so by a thread - its courts and military [and may eventually want to Islamize the EU] - together with ambitions of reviving a supremacist Empire. Why should the EU taxpayer fund that! Let them work for it - themselves!


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