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"en.20120328.18.3-137-000"2
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"Madam President, there is a dark side to the film Fetih 1453, which is popular in Turkey. The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad explained its popularity through the mouth of a cinema goer who said: ‘It is a pity than in 1453 we did not massacre all Christians straight away, then they would not have been bothering us now’. Turkish nationalism is mingling with the dark side of Islam. We see this also in the course taken by the Erdoğan Government. It is becoming increasingly close to Hamas. Erdoğan is the great leader of the so-called Arab Spring, a spring which in Egypt has now led to the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.
It is no coincidence that Aramaic monasteries have recently been the target of many legal actions over land ownership. Mr Erdoğan is firmly in the saddle and is busy extending his power base with his Islamist AK Party, including through these court cases. That is a dangerous cocktail of Turkish nationalism and the dark sides of Islam. Allowing Turkey into the EU would be a mistake of historic proportions. Good neighbourly relations are enough."@en1
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