Turkey (So Long & Goodnight)

[Barnabas]

The spanish and the austrians should kick the turks out of europe, and also remove the orthodox ecumenical patriarch and replace him with a catholic bishop.

[Sandman]

[Sikander]

Originally posted by MarkG
if we hadnt stopped the Persians in Marathon you would be speaking Iranian now....

WE may not be out of the woods yet!

[Winston]

So we would be speaking Iranian while the Iranians themsleves continued to speak Farsi!? That's just not fair to anybody.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Sikander
WE may not be out of the woods yet!

indeed, when we were building the parthenon you were jumping from tree to tree

[MarkG]

Originally posted by techumseh
Oh yeah, and a lot of help you were in the War of 1812. We had to defeat the Americans all by ourselves.

we didnt have our own state at the time, and i dont remember asking for help

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Winston
So we would be speaking Iranian while the Iranians themsleves continued to speak Farsi!? That's just not fair to anybody.

these how evil iranians are!

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by MarkG
indeed, when we were building the parthenon you were jumping from tree to tree

Jumping from tree to tree is the funnier thing to do

[Az]

Jumping from tree to tree is the funnier thing to do

Don't mind him, it's just the greeks inferiority complex before the true ancient cultures - like how the stole the canaanite/phoenician/Israel alphabet, for example.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by MarkG
indeed, when we were building the parthenon you were jumping from tree to tree

I was keeping the world safe from the Sherriff of Nottingham and his men.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Az
if we remember the fact that greek cypriots rejected the peace treaty (and unification, damn Markos), I don't think that turkey is the problem.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I've intensely disliked every Turk I've ever met.

Also every Pole.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by MarkG

If anything, the requirements have been increased for Turkey.

recognizing the existance of all the members of club you want to enter is a very, very low requirement....

Sandman and you are both right. Recognizing Cyprus is a low key requirement. However, it's not the only one, and Turkey faces more stringent requirements than the 10 new members and the 2 future members (Romania and Bulgaria).

That's mostly because the EU-leaders weren't really satisfied with the joining process of the 10+2, and changed the rules. Similar stringent rules can be found about white+catholic Croatia.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Sir Og


Paiktis I get a feeling that you do not approve of unification between Macedonia and Bulgaria even though you agree that most Macedonians are actually Bulgarians. You should not fear such a union. We are not going to come after Greece for what it did in the Balkan wars We are going to be in the EU soon and then there will be no borders between Bulgaria and Greece and it won't matter if Solun is in Bulgaria or Greece.

I wouldn't be opposed to Bulgaria getting Skopjie (=FYROM). Not at all!

[Bereta_Eder]

Really though if you think about it. the skopjians are people suffering from identity crisis. even though they are bulgars they dont want to join bulgaria. when they got their independence the 1st thing they did was to write a constitution calling for attack against greece. they got the wood in the ass with the embargo and revoked those clauses. and revoked the sun of vergina.
now 50% plus of skpjia is albanians.


amazing balkans what a situation i still believe rigas feraios plan to unify all balkans under one single state would have been something worth trying.