Nicolas Sarkozy: We must clearly tell Turkey that it does not intend to enter the EU

June 16, 2016 By administrator

Nicolas Sarkozy

The chairman of Republicans gave an interview to the seven European newspapers members Lena (Leading European Newspaper Alliance): La Repubblica, El Pais, Die Welt, Le Soir, La Tribune de Genève, Tages-Anzeiger and Le Figaro.

LENA. – What inspired you the latest acts of terrorism, the killing of Orlando and the murder of a French policeman and his wife in Magnanville?

Nicolas SARKOZY. – These tragic events show that we are at war. A foreign war against the Islamic State and al-Qaida, and an internal war against those of our fellow followers of radical Islam. If one wants to fight our enemy, we must designate: the jihadism and radical Islamism, which feed each other. How to accept how radical Islam treats women, persecutes gays … It’s a shame!

What to do about it?

The threat has changed in nature, size and importance. It abolished the last taboos: in France, a business leader was beheaded, a martyred newspaper, referred concert, outdoor cafes strafed, policemen murdered in their homes … It’s our whole society is attacked. But democracies have not yet taken the full measure of changes over the past two years, the response has not been up to.

I propose four immediate steps. First, we must put all Islamists held in solitary confinement, as there is a proselytizing in prisons must be fought. Secondly, I request the urgent creation of a real prison intelligence service. Not only must “add sound” (wiretap, Ed) cells, but it takes human intelligence, as indeed in places of worship and extremists within radicalized groups. Prison guards also must be attached to the Interior Ministry and not to the Department of Justice, because they are security personnel.

Third, foreign or binational person connected with terrorist activities or networks to be deported immediately. That the state of emergency serves at least that! We do not have the means to monitor round the clock stuck the some 11,500 individuals. Now all those who have gone to the act, without exception, had been spotted at some point. I request that the precautionary principle applies to security. The precautionary principle is also lengthen the sentences for those guilty of crimes related to terrorism and ensure their implementation.

Switzerland withdrawing bid to join EU

June 16, 2016 By administrator

The Swiss parliament on Wednesday voted to officially withdraw the country’s dormant application to join the European Union, Politico.eu reports.
Following a vote in the lower house, the government will now tell the EU to “consider [the application] as withdrawn,” Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter was quoted as saying by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Burkhalter had earlier said the application, which was sent to the European Economic Community in 1992, was already invalid.
In 1992, the Swiss rejected joining the European Economic Area, of which Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein are members and have access to the EU single market.
At the time, the Swiss government backed EU membership, but Swiss voters rejected the EU bid months later. The application has remained dormant ever since.

EU: Hate speech, media crackdown cause concern in Azerbaijan

June 8, 2016 By administrator

214207 The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) on Tuesday, June 7 published its new report on Azerbaijan, the Council of Europe said.

According to the report, the continued use of hate speech, a crackdown on independent civil society and media, prejudice against LGBT people and discrimination against religious minorities give rise to concern.

“As a result, vulnerable groups can no longer turn to NGOs for assistance in cases of racism, hate speech and discrimination,” the Commission said.

“Even though no violent hate crime based on ethnic affiliation has been registered in Azerbaijan during the last five years, political leaders, educational institutions and media have continued spreading hate speech. The pardon, release and promotion in 2012 of Ramil Safarov, who had been sentenced in Budapest to life imprisonment for the murder of an Armenian army officer, contributes to a sense of impunity for the perpetrators of racist crime. The report recommends that authorities put an end to the constant, use of hate speech, and rather promote mutual understanding and confidence.”

The report goes on to suggest that Azerbaijan has not enacted comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation and there is no institution responsible for preventing and combating racism and discrimination in the private sector. ECRI also deplores a considerable number of violent attacks against LGBT persons, many committed by family members. The Law on Freedom of Religious Belief is not in line with international standards. Various religious minorities have been subject to harsh restrictions and discrimination, including police raids, detention, closure of places of worship, the ban on praying outside mosques, censorship of religious literature and heavy penalties. In practice, there are no alternatives to military service in Azerbaijan.

ԵԽ հանձնաժողով․ Ադրբեջանում շարունակում են հայերի դեմ ատելություն սերմանել. Azatutyun.am

History-genocide-Armenia-Turkey-Germany-EU The recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the world (AFP)

June 6, 2016 By administrator

history recognition of genocide An increasing number of parliaments, mainly in Europe, like the Bundestag on Thursday passed laws or resolutions explicitly recognizing the Armenian Genocide, unlike other countries failing to pronounce the word that puts Turkey in fury.

According to the Armenian National Institute, 26 other parliaments have recognized the genocide: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Paraguay , Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Uruguay, Vatican, Venezuela. But these votes may take forms and have many different legal litters.

– Recognition and denial –

France was in January 2001, the first major country to recognize the Armenian genocide. The denial of the genocide is not however penalized, the Constitutional Council censored in February 2012 a law in this sense, judging contrary to freedom of expression.

In contrast to France, some countries criminalize denial of Armenian genocide like Switzerland where a revisionist was sentenced in federal court in 2007, and Cyprus by a law adopted in April 2015.

Cypriot law establishes April 24, when the first massacres in 1915, as a National Day of Remembrance in this country, where members of the Armenian minority are mostly descendants of the survivors of the “genocide”.

– Other European parliaments –

Among parliaments that have recently adopted a resolution recognizing the genocide include the Luxembourg Parliament in May 2015, and Belgium, in July of the same year. The resolution adopted by the Belgian Parliament, however, not explicitly recognizes the genocide character of the massacres and deportations of Armenians.

The European Parliament recognized the genocide in 1987.

The genocidal massacres and deportations occurred between 1915 and 1917 was recognized by the parliaments of several countries such as Russia (1994), Greece (1996), Italy (2000), the Netherlands (2004) Sweden (2010).

April 24, 2015, in full commemoration by Armenia of the 100th anniversary of the genocide, Pope Francis speaks of “first genocide of the twentieth century” about the massacre of Armenians in the most solemn part of the St. Peter’s Basilica. A first in the Vatican.

More symbolically, the Austrian MEPs observed in April 2015, a minute of silence in memory of the Armenian genocide, a first in this country formerly allied with the Ottoman Empire and that term has never been officially endorsed.

– US Hesitation –

April 20, 1965, Uruguay was the first country to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Other Latin American countries have followed such as Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.

The Canadian House of Commons has recognized the Armenian genocide in 2004.

In the US, Congress recognized the genocide with the adoption of resolutions by the House in 1975 and 1984. When he was campaigning for the White House in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to recognize the genocide, a term however, he never employed as president.

AFP

Monday, June 6, 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Dreuz.info report Arab migrants to the EU’s doors with false Turkish passports

May 25, 2016 By administrator

(dreuz.info) Thousands of Turkish passports are available on social networks. The offer is open to Arab migrants seeking to enter Europe by taking advantage of the Ankara-Brussels agreement on the abolition of visas for Turkish citizens.

This agreement is not yet in force that migrants are already organizing. The online shopping Turkish passports crescent moon rage.

Simply connect on Facebook, to enroll in one of many groups of asylum seekers traveling to Europe, to realize that the black market documents is the most flourishing.

When last summer, Angela Merkel promised to open the doors of his country to Syrians fleeing the war, thousands of applicants for asylum became suddenly all Syrians and offered real fake passports via some mafia networks.

The EU has decided to better track the bogus refugees, migrants excogité a simple solution: buy Turkish nationality.

It is not necessary to delve into the depths of the “deep-web” to find out. Just go to Facebook or Twitter.

There are, for example, a certain Ahmad Alhamwi, trafficker in documents, which sets selling passports and identity cards to suit all needs.

“You want to take Turkish nationality – he wrote on Twitter – then call this number for information. “

All accompanied by an address in Mersin, coastal town 300 km crescent of the Syrian border. A real sorting center mercenaries, weapons and all sorts of illegal goods.

On Facebook, you can also buy diplomatic, special documents for parliamentarians and government senior officials, valid for travel with women and children. Color photos of other items available are also promoted.

Even the slogan coined to encourage the purchase looks like a special offer of a large area.

“Our company writes Alhamwi, is open every day, including Sundays, from 08:00 to 18:30. Passports and identity cards will be delivered within 30 days. Perfectly done, ready to be used at airports, they will allow you to impersonate for tourists and reach your destination in a perfectly legal manner. “

There are thousands of online buyers: Saudis, Pakistanis, Palestinians. These migrants, who have little chance of obtaining international protection, have found another way to come to Europe. A bonanza for the terrorists, who have long found in Turkey a very fertile breeding ground for criminal activity.

yet these are refugees whom we have much to learn … as good pro-migrant souls, including Pope Francis

“Let them give us a lesson in humanity. Change our way of life, our policies, our economic choices, our behaviors, our attitudes of cultural superiority. On learning of the victims and those who suffer, we will be able to build a more humane world. “

Source: Dreuz.info .

Source: “Migranti alle door dell’Ue con i documenti finti turchi” – It Giornale.It (translated and adapted by Rosaly)

Erdogan Blackmail after Blackmail of EU The Turkish parliament will block migrants agreement if no EU visa exemption

May 25, 2016 By administrator

visa-free Istanbul, May 24, 2016 (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the European Union that the Turkish Parliament would block the legislative process under the agreement on migrant if Turkey did not obtain a visa waiver for end of June.

In the event that no result would be achieved on visas, “no decision, no law in the context of the implementation of the readmission agreement will come out of the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey,” Erdogan said during a press conference at the World humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.

“A step had to be crossed on June 30 concerning visas (…) Our Foreign Minister, our Minister for European Affairs will hold talks (with the Europeans). If a result is obtained, the better. In case no result is obtained, that we apologize, “he added.

The agreement on liberalization of visa regime for Turks wishing to travel to the Schengen area by the end of June, in the heart of the broader pact on migrants, teetering since Erdogan objected to an easing of Turkish anti-terrorist law, one of the 72 conditions imposed by Brussels.

On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed the need to meet all criteria before a visa exemption for Turks, saying that “the conditions are not yet fulfilled” by the deadline.

“I said clearly that the road to visa-free passing by 72 points,” stressed German Chancellor after a bilateral meeting with Mr. Erdogan. “We need the implementation of these points for granting visa exemption.”

one #Turkish dictator constantly Blackmail & threat 27 #EU countries U.S, Russia, no one can lift a fingar on him. pic.twitter.com/rsDXREa8Fo

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) May 25, 2016

“I told them very clearly yesterday (…) They do not leave us a new test every two days,” retorted Tuesday the head of the Turkish state.

Ankara has made this agreement a prerequisite for further implementation of the controversial pact on migrants who helped drastically reduce the flow of illegal crossings to Greece.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Leave campaign says UK at risk from Turkish criminals if it remains in EU

May 22, 2016 By administrator

The UK will be at risk from Turkish criminals, while the health service will be put under immense pressure, according to Britain’s Armed Forces minister, if the UK stays in the EU. However, critics have accused the Leave campaign of “stoking the fires of prejudice.”

The campaign for Britain to leave the EU says that if the UK remains within the bloc, security in the country will be put at risk from countries such as Turkey. Armed Forces minister Penny Mordaunt warned that if Turkey was to join the EU, it would put Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) under immense strain.

Using figures from the migration of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens after the countries joined the EU, the Leave campaign predicts that 142,000 Turkish citizens could head to the UK every year, if Ankara is given full EU membership.

“Since the birthrate in Turkey is so high, we can expect to see an additional million people added to the UK population from Turkey alone within eight years,” the Leave campaign said in a statement, as cited by the Guardian.

“This will not only increase the strain on Britain’s public services, but it will also create a number of threats to UK security. Crime is far higher in Turkey than the UK. Gun ownership is also more widespread. Because of the EU’s free movement laws, the government will not be able to exclude Turkish criminals from entering the UK.”

As a consequence of the perceived threat posed by Turkish membership, Mordaunt says the only option for Britain is to opt out.

“I believe that this is dangerous and it will make us less safe. That’s why the safer option in this referendum is to Vote Leave and take back control.”

Although talks are taking place with Turkey regarding visa free travel to the Schengen zone for tourism purposes, there is no realistic prospect of Ankara joining the EU in the foreseeable future, according to the Conservative former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

Vote Leave are desperate to avoid experts’ warnings that leaving Europe would send Britain back to recession, and so are making arguments that are absurd and untrue. Even Boris Johnson has said that Turkey joining the EU is ‘simply not on the cards’,” Rifkind said.

“Turkey simply will not join the EU any time soon. In 30 years of negotiations, they have completed just one of the 35 tests they need to fulfill to apply to join. Every EU country, including Britain, has a veto on any new country joining. And if they do join in the distant future, our government will have the power to impose transitional controls to restrict immigration from Turkey,” he added.

Meanwhile Trevor Phillips, a former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, lashed out at the Leave campaign and said he could not imagine what the “sizeable, law-abiding, industrious Turkish community in the UK must feel when they hear this.”

“This appears to be a straightforward admission that the Leave campaign has lost on every rational argument and now it is simply trying to stoke the fires of prejudice,” he said, according to the Guardian.

A referendum on whether the UK should remain within the EU is set to take place on June 23. A poll published on Saturday for the Observer newspaper showed that 44 percent of Britons want to remain in the EU, while 40 percent of the population would like the UK to leave.

Cem Ozdemir: Germany and EU should not be susceptible to blackmail by authoritarian rulers like Erdogan

May 21, 2016 By administrator

YEREVAN. – Bundestag is expected to hold debates on the Armenian Genocide resolution on June 2. Armenian News-NEWS.am talked to Cem Ozdemir, co-chairman of the German political party Alliance ’90/The Greens who is supporting recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Bundestag will discuss the Armenian Genocide resolution in June. After heated discussions, the Greens withdrew the draft resolution to review the document. What changes have been made? Is “genocide” term mentioned in the document?

When we were discussing the Armenian genocide issue in Bundestag last time, chairman of the Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Volker Kauder shook my hand and assured me that we would make a joint statement. We clarified that the statement would contain the following points: a. yes, it was a genocide; b. yes, Germany had its share of responsibility; c. we will support reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey. Our agreement is in force and is the key point of a joint statement that we want to adopt on June 2.

What are your personal expectations? Will Bundestag adopt the resolution this time?

I am very optimistic that this time it will be put to the vote. However, it is more important to vote on a resolution that mentions precise words. We have been working on it for over a year. We have been holding talks for a long time, and I am pleased that we are on a good track now.

Turkey pressed EU to interfere with the “Aghet” concert project of the Dresden symphony orchestra. Olaf Zimmermann, head of the German Cultural Council, said it’s yet another case of Turkey’s inappropriate interference abroad. How strong in your mind is Turkey’s influence on Germany? Do you think the influence is the reason that the Armenian Genocide resolution has not been adopted by Bundestag so far?

You can see the result: the Armenians, Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Pontic Greeks, who made up a quarter of the population of the Ottoman Empire before the genocide, make only small minority groups in today’s Turkey. Whatever Turkey calls the events, everyone can get an idea. Therefore, the Turkish government is making a mockery of themselves when trying to press the Dresden symphony orchestra or even the German Bundestag to accept their interpretation of history. Neither Germany, nor the EU should be susceptible to blackmail by authoritarian rulers such as Erdogan or Putin. The result is increasingly the opposite, namely more and more people are getting interested not only in the fate of the Christians in the former Ottoman Empire, but also in the Muslim world today.

The director of the Dresden symphony orchestra and other prominent cultural figures called on to recognize the genocide in a letter sent to Bundestag this week. My impression is that the case of “Aghet” will encourage certain colleagues in the Bundestag to vote for the recognition on June 2.

France: Sarkozy (LR) of the EU: the worst would Brexit and the accession of Turkey

May 17, 2016 By administrator

arton126526-480x360 Paris, May 17, 2016 (AFP) – Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Tuesday on the website of the World, that “the worst” for the European Union “would Brexit and the accession of Turkey,” and advocates a new treaty “which France must be initiated as early as summer 2017”.

“The worst would be the Brexit + + and the accession of Turkey would have made the grand slam of the error! But Brexit + + or not, it will, in all cases, deeply rebuild the European project, and it will pass by a treaty which France must be initiated by the summer of 2017, “said the former president of the Republic.

The issue of maintaining or not the United Kingdom within the bloc of 28 EU countries is subject to referendum June 23. “The debate on Brexit + + is an opportunity to rebuild Europe. I regret that Francois Hollande has not made any proposals upstream, “he told Mr Sarkozy, who also criticized the EU-Turkey agreement on refugees.

“To think that Turkey can sustainably manage and solve these problems is a mistake. Europe can she trust a Turkish power, which evolves more and more towards an authoritarian regime? I dispute it, “he said.

“It is not the fact of having + + hot spots in Turkey that I dispute in the agreement with that country, it is the abolition of visas, irresponsible in the current security climate, and the revival of negotiations membership, incomprehensible, given the evolution of the Turkish power over civil liberties, “insists the President of Republicans (LR).

“I will not criticize Merkel and German politics. But what shocked me is to see Merkel negotiating alone with the Turkish government. Where was Mr. Holland? Where is the voice of France? When Barack Obama came to Europe, he met the Chancellor in Germany, after stopping in the UK. Does France have disappeared from the diplomatic card? What a humiliation! “, Accused Mr. Sarkozy.

German politicians say Merkel left EU exposed to Turkish blackmail

May 15, 2016 By administrator

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BERLIN, May 15 (Reuters) – German politicians accused Chancellor Angela Merkel at the weekend of making Europe overly dependent on Turkey in the migrant crisis, leaving the bloc vulnerable to blackmail by President Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkey, refusing to bow to European Union demands to rein in its broad anti-terror laws, said on Friday talks on a deal to provide visa-free travel in return for stopping illegal migrants reaching the EU had reached an impasse and the bloc must find a “new formula” to salvage the agreement.

Merkel, whose popularity has suffered due to her liberal migrant policy that saw Germany take in more than one million migrants last year, had spearheaded EU efforts to secure the deal, signed in March.

While the numbers of migrants have dropped sharply this year, Merkel continues to attract criticism from her conservative allies in Bavaria as well as the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD).

“I’m not against talks with Turkey but I think it’s dangerous to become so dependent on Ankara,” said Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU).

Seehofer told Welt am Sonntag (WamS) that the deal with Turkey had helped boost support for AfD, which is currently polling at up to 15 percent.

Sahra Wagenknecht of the opposition far-left Linke party told the same newspaper Merkel had essentially negotiated the deal without involving her European partners.

“The chancellor is therefore responsible for Europe having become vulnerable to being blackmailed by the authoritarian Turkish regime and for Erdogan feeling noticeably strengthened to crush human rights underfoot,” she said.

Cem Oezdemir, co-leader of the Greens party and the son of Turkish immigrants, also told WamS the deal had put Europe at risk of being blackmailed and said Merkel was largely to blame.

While the EU is desperate for the deal to succeed, it also insists that Turkey meet 72 criteria, including anti-terror laws which it says Turkey uses to stifle dissent. Ankara says it needs sweeping legislation to fight Kurdish insurgents and Islamic State.

Merkel is due to attend the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on May 23 and there are plans for bilateral talks with other leaders in attendance, her spokesman said on Friday.

Members of the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel’s junior coalition partner, also expressed concern.

Carsten Schneider told WamS Merkel had made Erdogan the key to her refugee policy and if he stopped cooperating, “the extent of Germany’s isolation in Europe will become clear again”, while Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel said Merkel should not “kowtow” to Erdogan.

But SPD Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Tagesspiegel newspaper Turkey was still the key country for migration to Europe, adding: “We need to cooperate to some extent if we want to avoid the circumstances we had last year.”

Merkel has drawn heavy criticism for allowing German prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian at the Turkish leader’s behest. The comic had recited a sexually crude poem about Erdogan. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Clelia Oziel)

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