What has Turkey to do with Louis Bleriot?
Nothing I assume. It's only the day of the news which links the photo above and Turkey below.
Yes, Turkey goes Europe. Today Turkey and Europe under Dutch chairmanship agreed that on the October 3 2005 talk will begin that must lead to full Turkish European membership.
Much has to be done to get a country ready to meet our standards.
But also much has to be done to get Turkish membership accepted in Europe of today.
It is said that this adjustment will take 10 years or more.
Many Turks are here in western Europe already. Turks in Kreuzberg in Berlin. Turks in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht in the Netherlands. They all came one by one. When dad came over to work here his wife or fiancee was left home. When he earned more money and the respectable Governments payed for familyreunion for humanitarian reasons, many followed. Now they life in the cities in sort of getto's.
I think that Turkeys uniting with the EU and a stabilizing of Turkey will be prosperous for Europe aswell, but mainly for Turkey and their nationals who live already in the EU.
I remember saying I was not sure about the double nationality Turks might have (in comparison with the Morocans), well they mainly have 2 nationalities.
I think this should put to an end.
The Government has a point telling that they want April 30 as a national nationality day on with foreigners who choose the Dutch nationality celebrate that important moment. April 30 is our Queensmother birthday too, so it's a perfect day for a celebration.
However maybe this is not the right moment to speak about this matter. It's making a policy on the symptoms of these days of misunderstanding and even hatred. Take some more time to think out a new policy which has to do with more than one subject.
A policy should be woven into various activities in society.
However April 30 remains a perfect day for a party.
