Quote Originally Posted by Taffy_is_a_Taff
personally, I'm concerned that the EU's human rights laws will possibly destabilize Turkey and will allow the influence of the scary brand of Islam to flourish.

If you want an example of a once non-scary country that became a hotbed of that nasty type of Islam then you can look at Pakistan. I know Pakistan is not in the EU blahblahblah but it did go down that fundamentalist path quite swiftly. A couple of decades of free reign for the scaries and you may find Turkey a completely different place in 2020.
That’s my point.

What makes the islamist ideology unable to reach power and to impose a religious based society in Turkey?

The army.

Is the military institution of a country an acceptable element to block the will of the people democratically expressed in European union?

No.

What will make impossible for Turkey to become a segregationist country once the army will be limited to it’s military task?

Nothing at the moment.


As long as Turkey has not found a way to remain a democratic country by democratic means, it shall remain outside of Europe and this cannot be negotiated.