Erdogan & The Eu: Meet The Clown Who Gave Recep His First Big Break

It is widely recognised that the Prime Minister is a bit of an ignoramus on most subjects, but the speech he delivered in Ankara yesterday makes almost incredible reading. (I note that this morning, he’s gone on to opine that Gaza is ‘like a prison camp’ – another remark tying us to this lunatic foreign policy of Islamic appeasement).

While insiders and historians have known for years that the Foreign Office is fiercely anti-Semitic, I write this piece not as a Zionist but as a student of geopolitics who can tell up from down and in from out.

Mr Cameron declared himself to be ‘angry’ that the Turks have been shut out of the EU, a sentiment I find ridiculously over the top in an emotional sense, and a downright cheek in the face of his own countrymen – who, I would guess, might well feel rather angry if a country like Turkey were ever to be allowed into the European Union….but who as usual have not been asked their view by him or anyone else.

As he has clearly been asleep on the issue of foreign policy over the last five years, I feel obliged to point out to David Cameron that the politics of Turkey have changed somewhat during that time, that a ghastly pro-Hamas Party (AK) has come to power, that it has become rabidly anti-Israeli, and that in just the last few months it has floated Bills into parliament clearly designed to subvert the essentially secular nature of the State. Further, the army remains an important factor in domestic politics – a situation which hardly qualifies the country for EU membership – and in case it had slipped the FCO’s shallow mind, Turkey has been in bitter disagreement with Greece over the status of Cyprus for nearly half a century. A war between two EU members: now there’s a happy prospect.

Cyprus too is not on the British radar, its long-suffering troops having stopped separating street-battles between Christians and Muslims there many years ago. But it should be, because much of the finance and propaganda that accompanied the entirely peace-loving, baby-saving, humanitarians-against-the-monster-Israel (but Hamas-controlled) ‘Gaza flotilla’ emanated from this long-split island.

I would’ve thought William Hague would know better than to let Cameron out on his own after last week’s ‘junior partner’ gaffe in relation to World War 2, but apparently not. Now we find ourselves committed to supporting Turkish entry: Turkey which – as even the touchy-feely BBCNews website managed to point out – has refused to recognise EU member Cyprus, increasingly supports pro-Islamic parties on the mainland, and treats the Kurdish minority in a similar manner to that of Sadam Hussein….minus the nerve gas.

For once, I thank God for France and Herman van Rompuy, both of whom are implacably opposed to Turkish entry. “Opposition to Turkish entry is based on prejudice” said the Prime Minister yeterday, “Hopefully, we move in the coming weeks to direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, so it’s Turkey that can make the case for peace, and Turkey that can help to press the parties to come together, and point the way to a just and viable solution.”

Absolute drivelling bollocks. Turkey is the next Islamist target after Pakistan, and its presence in an already spineless EU would spread still further the nazified intolerance of any opposition to extreme Islamic law and beliefs. What on earth is it about the British ruling class and FCO Establishment that fails to grasp even the simplest principle of having reliable and trustworthy allies in all the key places? I’m damned if I know: Hitler, the USSR, Suez, the Falklands, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and now Turkey – wrong every last time, and still leading even the Whitehall field for consistent stupidity.

There are days when I give up.