European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Turkey on 17 Dec. 2004
Read full report of the Independent Commission on Turkey, September 2004
The prospect of membership has been the EU’s single most effective foreign policy tool. In their desire to join the EU, countries across the European continent have consolidated democracy, opened up their economies, strengthened their public administrations, and improved relations with their neighbours. The accession process has worked wonders in Central and Eastern Europe, helping these countries to move from chaotic post-Communism to orderly EU membership in a decade and a half. The EU could do the same for Turkey, provided it stops dragging its feet. Turkey has been trying to move closer to the EU for 40 years. If EU leaders postpone the start of accession talks once more this year, they risk undermining the usefulness of accession as a foreign policy tool. If the EU cannot offer a credible timetable for accession to a key partner like Turkey, it will lose its leverage, not just in Turkey but also in the many other countries aspiring to join the EU.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007
By Leyla SURMELI (JTW)
The European Union (EU) report says that racism is on the rise in Germany. The EU report on racism in Europe severely critised Germany. The criticism for Germany comes on several fronts, including violent crimes and discrimination against foreigners in the job and housing markets.
Racism has recently become a hot issue in Germany after an apparently xenophobic attack on eight Indians (more…) in the eastern German town of M+-geln. The Germany Turks, biggest minorty group in the country, have also confronted serious racist attacks everyday.
The EU report says that violent racism in Germany appears to be on the increase. According to the report the incidents of racist violence and crime in Germany increased by 14 percent between 2005 and 2006, going up from 15,914 incidents in 2005 to 18,142 in 2006.
The “Report on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU” also shows that crime with an extremist right-wing motive also in increase, going up from 15,361 incidents in 2005 to 17,597 incidents in 2006, a 14.6 percent increase.
The incidence of anti-Semitic crime in Germany however remained fairly constant, with 1,662 incidents in 2006 compared to 1,682 in 2005.
The “Report on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU” was published Tuesday by the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) — an agency which was created on Mar. 1, 2007 to replace the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia.
Turkish Weekly
Sunday, 1 June 2008
(IRNA) – Germany’s Turkish community warned of continued racism in the country, while marking the 15th anniversary of an anti-foreigner arson attack in the western city of Solingen which killed five Turkish women and girls, the press reported Thursday.
There is still a high degree of xenophobia in Germany society which has to be combated through better education, stressed the Turkish community of Germany (TGD) and the Foundation of Turkish Studies (ZfT) in a statement.
“Aggressive behaviour and prejudices are already being taught at the age of a child. Therefore, one must act pedagogically at an early stage,” ZfT director,Faruk Sen was quoted saying.
There are 7.5 million foreigners living in Germany of which 2.5 million are Turks.
A recent confidential government report revealed widespread xenophobia among millions of teenagers in Germany.
Almost every German youth said there are too many foreigners living in Germany.
Nearly every 9th grader has Islamophobic tendencies while every 13 teenager admits to having committed a right-wing motivated criminal act.
Germany has been the scene of a series of vicious neo-Nazi attacks in recent months, especially against foreigners.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has repeatedly warned of a growing far-right problem in his country, branding it a “steadily growing danger.”
Schaeuble had voiced concern that the number of far-right crimes between 2005 and 2006 rose from 15,000 to 18,000 offenses, indicating a 9.3 percent increase.
Meanwhile, the number of anti-foreigner attacks hovered at 511 in 2006, showing a 37 percent rise from the previous year.
Political observers link the dramatic rise in the number of far-right crimes to the recent success of neo-Nazi parties in key regional elections in several east German states.
Young neo-Nazis feel also more and more emboldened to commit hate crimes, knowing that police won’t charge them with an offense.
Most of the suspects implicated in far-right crimes are juveniles.
Hate crime experts and sociologists have repeatedly stressed that Germany’s political leadership lacked a clear and effective strategy to fight neo-Nazi and racist crimes.
1 June 2008
Turkish Weekly
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
The French government and media’s “double standards” in tackling hate crimes has drawn a diatribe after an odious attack on a Frenchman of Algerian origin had been met with deafening silence compared to the much publicized and denounced killing of a French Jew last month.
“We condemn the double standards of media and French institutions especially the Elysee and the government,” the Coalition for Truth said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net on Monday, March 27.
The rights advocacy group was formed in the wake of the killing of Shayeb Zaef, a 40-year-old French of Algerian roots, three weeks ago in an apparent racist attack.
The assailant, identified as Jean Marie, called Zaef a “filthy Arab” before shooting him thrice as he was stepping out of a caf+® in Lyon, witnesses said.
“We waited in vain for three entire weeks for a single word of condemnation from prominent French politicians, including the head of Lyon’s municipality,” Mouloud Aounit, the Secretary General of the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples, told IOL.
Aounit was among the signatories of the coalition’s statement along with prominent figures such as Algerian-born Senator Alima Boumediene and Olivia Zemor, the head of the Euro Palestine group.
In stark contrast, the killing of French Jew Ilan Halimi has been the talk of France last month and drew immediate condemnation from President Jacques Chirac, who was keen on attending a memorial service for the victim in a Paris synagogue.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have further took to the streets in protest against racism and anti-Semitism.
The march drew an array of politicians, including Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and representatives of the opposition Socialists, including Lionel Jospin, a former prime minister.
“Pressures”
Although initial investigations have revealed that the killer had links with the radical right-wing and despite eyewitness counts that he used mouth-fouled abuse against Zaef, police are reluctant to admit the racist nature of the crime.
This drew fire from the coalition which urged judiciary authorities not to “bow to political pressures.”
This also prompted the S.S. Racime group to organize a silent rally that drew 500 people in central Lyon.
The protesters carried banners demanding nothing but the truth.
As anger mounted, Sarkozy finally decided to meet Zaef’s wife and three sons to promise them a transparent inquiry into the killing of their breadwinner.
Zaef’s killing is he second of its kind in less than two months.
On February 25, two brothers of Moroccan origin were harshly attacked by a group of rightists and rushed to intensive care in critical condition.
Years of government negligence and marginalization prompted thousands of French immigrants and Arabs to stage nationwide riot in October and November of last year.
They voiced anger at racial discrimination despite being born in France, a lack of educational and employment prospects and police harassment.
A Sorbonne research released in 2005 by the French Observatory Against Racism found that Arab names and dark complexion represent an obstacle to jobseekers.
Turkish Weekly
