| Why Turkey must join The European Union |
| Friday, 10 April 2009 00:18 |
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I completely agree with President Obama’s statement about the importance of accepting Turkey within the European Union. And I strongly support President Berlusconi’s proposal to accept, as a compromise, Turkey within the EU with limitations for a scheduled time to free circulation of people (the same has been adopted for Romania). Not only because Ankara is just now one of the leading members of the Nato Alliance. Not only because turkish people are millions in Germany (especially, as well known, in Berlin) and widely represented troughout EU. We could add, according to Obama’s assessment, that it’s important to connect the turkish democracy to western world, and - moreover, that must be clear that EU is not “a christian club”. But there is also a further, stronger reason: European Union is, first of all, a way of spreading the worths of democracy in countries which have experienced, in the past, nazi-fascist dictatorships (like Germany, Italy, Spain) or communist regimes (as is the case of all the eastern block). his must be true for countries, like Turkey, which deal with nationalist and totalitarian-islamic ideologies, as well. If we ask Turkey to stabilize and improving its democracy, and if we pose a sort of “democracy test” to the government and the institutions of that country, this is a wise decision; but if we delay “sine die” the entrance of Ankara in EU (according to Sarkozy’s and Merkel’s tactics) we betray the founding principles of the European Union: free democracy, free market. 
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