I was silent for a few days, partly because of the disappointment I had after the elections for the European Parliament. The result could be summarized by a Turkish proverb: "Let it be small, but let it be mine."
That's what leaders of the rightist European parties, especially Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, could have said. Let the people hate the EU, so that that the participation to the elections will be a record low and we can win alongside our comrades, the far rightists. That's why they had stolen the show from the far rightists with their anti-Turkish discourse during the campaign.
Today, we live in a transitional period, like the time that you still have some headache before being completely healed after getting infected with flu virus. Our current complaints are temporary.
I insist: Europe will be able to transform itself to adapt the new world, when Sarkozy and Merkel won't be here anymore. At that time, we see the people mobilizing, like it was in the US and Iran now. We see record levels of participation, craving for change.
And that change will materialized in the very being of Turkey...
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By the way...
If the democracy conception of the EU is about allowing obviously racist parties, like the British National Party who doesn't even accept non-white people as members (in the 21st century)...
Then keep your EU democracy with you...
I'm fine with our bans on hate speech...
And I still love the true Europeans...
