Sarkozy: Turkey has no place in the European Union

The possible entry of Turkey into the EU would be pointless, said the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. "Turkey is in Asia Minor. This is a great country, a great civilization, but it is also a bridge between Asia and Europe. For her there is no place, I have to always said, and do not get me wrong, "Sarkozy said in a television channel" iTEL ".He says he has nothing against the Turks because they needed Europe and the country's NATO ally.

"When we explain to our children in schools that Turkey in Europe will have to add that the European cross borders Syria. It just does not make sense," he said.
Sarkozy stressed that the EU - European Union countries and that even geographically Turkey only partially in Europe.
"I think the historical, cultural and economic terms Turkey can not be treated as 100 percent of the European country," he said, adding that anyone who says that Turkey is a European country wants, in fact, the end of the EU, conveyed the "Sputnik". Sarkozy said that, according to these standards, Russia more European than Turkey.

• 20 Mar, 2016
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