Macedonia's bid to join NATO failed today due to Greece's veto. The reason? Greece wants Skopje (Macedonia's capital) to change its country's name, "arguing (otherwise) it might lead Skopje to make territorial claims over its (Greece's) own northern province which is also called Macedonia."
Why is Turkey not with Greece on this one? Is it simply a case of siding with any anti-Greek position? Is Turkey being hypocritical?
And what about the EU Court's ruling regarding the PKK? . . .
What if, when the U.S. troops leave Iraq (but not its government), the country is split into three, including Kurdistan. And Turkey finds itself opposing the name Kurdistan, as it realizes the same could be applied to the territory inside its own borders . . .
In a related story, The Court of First Instance (CFI), the EU's second-highest court, ruled against Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) inclusion in European Union's terror list.
And all the Turkish (provocateur) news media is up in arms, as if this is the end of the world, in a clearly intentional attempt to further alienate the Turks from Europe and the EU, and vice versa.
But what is clearly a (temporary) ruling based on a technicality, since the "EU said the ruling was irrelevant . . . (that) a new version list had been drawn up in December 2007, including the PKK again, which took into account the views of the court in similar cases in the past . . . (but the court said that) the EU had not properly justified its decision at the time (of the current ruling)."
Maybe the Turks need to carefully read what is being written, at least by the Turkish press, before they rush to judgement!
