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"Mr President, reading this report, it is obvious that the rapporteur and the majority that supports the report are quite clear about the profound differences between Turkey and the EU. It is not merely a question of having to make a few economic adjustments, but of Turkey and the EU being two widely different civilisations whose values are incompatible. In the light of this report, no responsible politician can come to any conclusion other than that Turkey does not belong in the EU and that there is no basis for embarking upon accession negotiations.
That is not, however, the way in which the majority of the European Parliament thinks. The operative belief in this House is that we should all like to become Germans: not the bad old Germans who finally suffered defeat in 1945, but the good new Germans with their unimpeachable opinions who obediently agreed to give up the Deutschmark and accept the euro, who are destroying the German economy and throwing tens of thousands of people into unemployment; the good Germans who, without so much as a murmur, are allowing millions of foreigners to move in and destroy German culture from within. In this way, the EU is trying to change us all, and the majority in this House believes that the Turks can be changed in the same way. Turkey is not Europe, however. The Turks do not want to be Germans, a fact that we can, of course, see clearly in Germany.
There is a reason for Turkey’s countless problems, and that reason is a civilisation that has damaging effects upon the development of society. What the EU is saying is, in actual fact, that Turkey should give up its Muslim culture. Mr Schulz said it clearly in this House today: Turkey must adopt all our laws and values. That is something, of course, which Turkey cannot, however, do. A country’s culture cannot be taken away from it; or, rather, any attempt to do so takes centuries. That is why the demands will hardly be fulfilled; but, in ten years’ time, this Parliament will adopt a splendid report to the effect that the demands have been fulfilled, irrespective of the fact that everyone knows that that is not the case. The peoples of Europe are opposed to Turkish accession to the EU. The strongest opponents are the Greek Cypriots, who are the European people that has most recently been at war with Turkey and the northern part of whose country is still occupied by Turkey. The people do not, however, count in the EU, which is ruled by a self-styled elite which, even if it has only 45% of the voters behind it, has no compunction about exerting its will over the people. Cyprus is directly threatened with exclusion …"@en1
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