On 25 jun, 13:56, Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:51:27 -0700, jeremyrh....@yahoo.com wrote:
> >On 23 jun, 22:05, Alfred Molon wrote:
> >>http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,490156,00.html
> >> (German only, could not find an English version)
>
> >> Already two months in a Turkish jail for flirting with a British girl.
> >> Not because Turkey is Islamic - because the parents of the girl
> >> denounced him for .ually abusing their daughter.
>
> >> The article does not say what this 17 yr old exactly did, but I would
> >> assume that it wasn't . otherwise the article would have explicitely
> >> mentioned it. The boy claims the 13 yr old girl told him she was already
> >> 15.
>
> >Not going to help Turkey's EU application much, I would guess ...
>
> Abduction of a small child didn't harm Greece's application.
> OTOH if rejection of Turkey is merely a racial thing as it seems to be, then it
> doesn't matter what Turks do.
I don't think the abduction of a child in Greece was by a legal
process, though.
Rejection of Turkey's application is not racially motivated, it's
simply because Turkey does not meet basic standards of respect for
human rights and international law.
B;
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