Offiziel unterstützen die USA einen EU-Beitritt der Türkei,verbal,inoffiziel wird dieser mit Sorge betrachtet.Dazu der folgende lesenswerte Beitrag ,gefunden bei dhimmiwatch.org:
Fitzgerald: No to Turkey in the E.U.
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald revisits the question of Turkey's entry into the European Union:
Cartoon rage in Turkey has been relatively muted. That does not and should not obscure, however, the fact that Turkey represents a civilization fundamentally different from that of the Europeans, and that its bid to join the E.U. should be resolutely resisted.
It is not true, not anymore, that the most farseeing Americans in the American government, or on its fringes, still think that the official line -- United States wants Turkey in the E.U. -- is meant, whatever public pronouncements are still made in Washington that repeat the old formulas. Like light that arrives from a distant star even after that star has been extinguished, policy is often made on the basis of previous considerations.
Turkey was much more important to the United States during the Cold War than it is today. Islam was always seen as a "bulwark against Communism." Turkey dutifully enrolled itself in the campaign against the Soviet Union, not only or not mainly because of hatred of Communism, but because it was in so doing helping to checkmate its oldest enemy, Russia, and in the process, acquiring enormous benefits as a member of NATO. Turkish troops went off to fight bravely during the Korean War, and managed to find time to convert South Koreans to Islam (there are now 50,000 such Muslim tokens of Turkish self-esteem). Turkey was a place for airbases and listening posts. The generals in Ankara were so modern, so forward-looking, so much "our kind" -- even more "our kind" than the Terry-Thomas mustachioed generals in Pakistan. And of course unlike the Pakistani version, the Turkish defense establishment was, indeed, secular, and the preserver of the Kemalist legacy and the Cult of Ataturk.
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