Nur al-Cubicle

A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press. Daily timeline of events in Iraq as collected from stories and dispatches in the French and Italian media: Le Monde (Paris), Il Corriere della Sera (Milan), La Repubblica (Rome), L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut) and occasionally from El Mundo (Madrid).

Thursday, October 05, 2006

If Turkey were to join the EU

...the EU would end up with a border on Syria, Iraq and Iran. Not to mention absorbing 73 million Turks, making Turkey the second largest nation after Germany in the EU, with corresponding voting rights. Not going to happen.

posted by Nur-al-Cubicle | 11:26 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger janinsanfran said...

Actually, as things are going, it looks as if the EU might have a border with Kurdistan, carved from the former Iraq. Wonder how that would play?

5:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mongolia or bust!

7:49 PM  

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