THE EUROPE TO COME

When Serbia-Montenegrin President Svetozar Marovic invited Turkey to enter the EU in 2010 together with his country, I was mortified. Way back in 1959, Turkey declared that it would participate in the EU’s core with six members, and it signed an agreement two years later, but now it’s behind Serbia! Serbia, the perpetrator of an incredible genocide, can invite Turkey to cooperate without blushing.

Countries outside the EU will be treated this way. Bulgarian citizens, under our sovereignty as late as 1908, can now cross European borders without a visa. However, Turks must suffer in waiting in visa queues. We waste our power by staying outside Europe and against the United States. However, it would be easier to be rescued from such a situation by joining Europe. Every Turkish intellectual must find truth. Is it so hard to see where our love for the status quo has led us?”