Thank you for the link Skybird.
This results will play nicely into the hands of Merkel and Sarkozy, who would most probably rather sell their mothers to slavery than see Turkey as a member of the EU. And these results confirm your statement. We have been fed "lies" that Turkey wants to enter and it "does", at least officially and it did before AKP took over. Now, it seems they are after EU support, which has almost stopped in recent years, particularly the support for minorities and civil rights groups. Furthermore, the results are scary. Only 13% of pro-democracy populace, to what? almost 100% in Europe. Plus only 25% of the populace supports lay schools and they believe women deserve to be whipped.
Now, I am not someone who will discriminate someone based on his faith, yet I will not stand and take without response a blatant disrespect of even most basic human rights. Even China got those partly right and they are always under pressure to reform. While I do believe the Islamic world is not all like that, the results from Turkey are quite frankly scary. What are we going to do? Give them money for reforms and try to broker a deal or say no to any form of supranational cooperation, an option which seems more and more viable, yet which no politician wants to say publicly, even though they know it is the only option left. It is a NATO thing after all and the US do want Turkey to join to have a friendly corridor to the Middle East.
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