Oktay Eksi: European-Type Sadism

“One of the unwritten rules of being European seems to be making one suffer before you give something! Europeans seem to oppose to torture fiercely. But once they get the opportunity, they will make you suffer so much that you will be worse than being tortured. “Then they will give a little bit of hope. Then they will pull ît back. Until you say “Damn it!”“We are experiencing this process, the European sadism for a while. It seems that if they will tell us on December 17 that “Okay, let us begin accession talks at this date”, then we shall have to bear it for a longer time.“The last example is the draft resolution prepared by Netherland. The first version of the text was probably leaked by Netherlands to Reuters to test our reaction. Because it was merciless and negative. “Then, our soft and moderate-styled foreign minister Gul said that “I can not see any reason to talk negatively” and “These can change for 40 times. These are tactics. Turkey is self-confident.”” Then a very diplomatic (!) statement came from PM Erdogan: “We are not playing children’s games here!” “Then after Gul conveyed our 8 conditions to Europe, we had the illusion that the matter was settled. This reminded us our “Red Lines” in Iraq which we scrapped with a red chalk... “As Gul said, the draft was amended but it turned into a more negative text... Okay, let Turkey not have any torture and not even mention it, but when will they give up torturing Turkey?”�