The Most Ridiculous Statament In The Worls

Now these words have become past tense! Counting adultery as an offense in the penal code pushes the positive tone of the report into the dustbin. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew into a rage after the EU’s reaction, saying: ‘This is our internal policy, the EU can’t get involved in this.’ Now this is one of the most ridiculous statements in the world. Erdogan meets with EU countries almost every week, but this show that he has never understood the Union.

For two years, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has, in the name of democratization, enacted social and legal reforms in the Parliament. Who wants these packages? Who is carefully observing those reforms? Isn’t it the EU? Though such regulations should be part of every modern democracy, they weren’t included in ours until now. Excluding military judges from state security courts and military representatives from the Board of Higher Education, transparent police affairs, more civilian authority on the National Security Council (NSC), ending the state of emergency, broadcasts in native languages, and so on. Weren’t they approved under EU pressure? So the EU doesn’t interfere in our internal policies on these issues, but on the issue of adultery? Moreover, who is praising himself about doing something which no government has done before? What about Cyprus? Cyprus isn’t among the Copenhagen criteria, but didn’t the AKP bargain over Cyprus for months? Didn’t it accept the Annan plan with EU and US pressure? Isn’t this interfering in our internal policies?

What about the International Monetary Fund? The IMF is now in Ankara inspecting our economy. The IMF has done economically what the EU did politically. Therefore doesn’t the IMF interfere in our internal policies? Relations with IMF are going well, but what if it said that the economy can’t recover with these interest rates, tax revenues and monetary supply? Will the government again say that the IMF is interfering in our internal affairs?

The AKP government’s existence is dependent on Turkey’s EU bid. If the government doesn’t get a date for accession talks, then it will have neither internal authority nor respect from other countries. Keeping adultery out of the penal code is a mark of secularism.”