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Booh! on 19 September 2011
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Joelcool7 said:
Booh! said:

In other news: Turkey to freeze EU ties if Cyprus gets EU presidency. They're overdoing a bit.


Well that actually makes a bit of sense since Turkey thinks they own half the island. I've gotta say freezing EU ties however would likely do more damage to Turkey then good. But considering the Government is not a secular Government it would probably blame any back fire on the west and Greece and EU.

Honestly I think the Government of Turkey is playing with fire alot lately. They have every right to be outraged by the deaths of Turkish citizens, they have every right to be upset with Cyrpus becoming EU President. But honestly threatening military action and pulling out of a huge global economic machine seems alittle how should I say this "Over Kill".

I think yah Turkey should have pulled the ambassador to Israel and ordered an apology. But to threaten to send warships threw a military blocikade is foolish, whether the threat was empty or not. Pulling out of the EU is just stupid considering no other countries recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus!

Turkey says Israel should respect the Palestinians who had their land stolen. Well Turkey you stole a huge hunk of Cyprus and I don't see you returning that?

This is the real reason of all the upset over there: Cyprus pushes ahead on gas drilling, Cyprus, Turkey spar over gas drilling.I mean Turkey never cared about Palestinians for half a century and now all this fuss, the real reason is that the US geological society discovered large resources of natural gas in the Levant Basin (the sea between Cyprus and the ME) and now Cyprus and Israel decided to cooperate to drill that gas. Turkey that inveded northern Cyprus in the '70s claims some of that sea area as its (well Northern Cypriot, but there's no difference) and it's harassing Israel and Cyprus to have its own share of the pie. End of the story.