http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=40159 Stoiber Speaks Out Against Turkish EU Membership <http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=40159> Tuesday , 17 October 2006 BERLIN - At the Christian Social Union (CSU) party convention this weekend, party leader Edmund Stoiber unambiguously rejected EU membership for Turkey. "Europe is a community of values, and I say yes to close cooperation, to friendship with Turkey but if we want to make the European Union an intellectual center, then I say Turkey has no place here," said Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber Saturday at a CSU party convention in Augsburg. Stoiber did not explain what European values Turkey does not share. Stoiber, who is also the chairman of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party and coalition partner of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), contradicted US President George Bush on the issue of Turkey's potential accession to the European Union. "I disagree very clearly with President Bush when he says that Turkey must join Europe for security policy reasons," Stoiber said. "I say, bring Nicaragua into the US and then we can talk about it." "Take off your headscarves" The conservative leader appealed to the Muslims in Germany to distance themselves from terror and violence and to integrate into daily German culture. About 3.5 million Muslims live in Germany, about 3 million of whom are from Turkey. Public support for the CSU has dropped under the symbolic 50 percent mark in Bavaria, where the conservative Catholic party has governed alone since the mid-1960s. In addition, a poll by ZDF television published Friday showed that only 24 percent of Germans believe Stoiber and Merkel have a good working relationship, while 43 percent see Merkel and Beck's working relationship as positive. Stoiber, who lost the 2002 general election, has carved out a reputation as being fickle by repeatedly criticizing health reform proposals from the CDU and SPD. He faces re-election in 2008. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
