On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:00:12 -0700, jeremyrh.geo@yahoo.com wrote:
>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.
Yeah right and Bulgaria, Rumania etc. do? Respect of International law means not
invading Cyprus to stop those of Turkish descent being murdered?
--
Martin
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