Olli Rehn aka Mustafa
EU Commissioner for Expansion, Olli Rehn, has spread good will through Ankara during meetings at the Turkish Parliament this week. Drinking a cup of strong Turkish coffee at the Foreign Affairs commission, Rehn was quoted as saying: “Everyone thinks I am very Turkish. Joschka Fischer (the German Foreign Minister) even calls me ‘Mustafa’ sometimes.”
That was from the Turkey’s press.
Well is it me or Mr. “Mustafa” has misunderstood his role? He is commissioner of Europe’s expansion and not representative of the Turkey’s interests in EU. And if he had been bothered to find out what’s really going on in Europe he would have realized that Europe has a lot of questions about Turkey. Too many questions. Turkey is too far away of meeting the European criteria for a membership and the truth however much they like to hide it in Brussels is that turkey has already failed to meet all the dead lines. For the ones who like not to remember major dead line is in four months and what turkey has done? Nothing. On the contrary they continue their usual arrogant attitude; you are going to change not us!
If Olli Rehn is lobbing for the Turkey’s interests that’s really bad, if he is proud of it is even worst. Mr. Olli Rehn is a Finn and Finns still mourn about Karelia, the land they lost to Russia half a century before and in every occasion the Finns remind the Russians everything about the Finnish minority there. How does he feel now having a part of EU – the very same EU he represents - still occupied from the Turks? And that happened 30 years ago with a military invasion, hundreds innocent dead, and thousands refugees from their own houses?
So Mr. Olli Rehn has better do the job they gave him to do instead of been proud to be called “Mustafa,” otherwise he makes me think that he might have been proud to be called “Valdimir Rehnski” as well!!!
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