TURKEY: BONINO, CLOSING THE DOOR WOULD HELP FUNDAMENTALISM


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"If we close the doors for Turkey, we send this kind of message: Europe is a Catholic citadel closed in itself". This is the opinion of the minister for European politics, Emma Bonino, guest at 'Omnibus' this morning on La7. According to Emma Bonino "Europe doesn't want Turkey because it is a Muslim country. But the combination of nationalism and Muslim fundamentalism in this way would come out stronger and we have no interest in this happening". A process of negotiating" Bonino underlined "has always helped the development of human rights, like the freedom of religion, and in this way we support the 30,000 Christians that today are being persecuted. Let's stop talking about the Cyprus question that is only a big alibi. On Cyprus we made bigger errors than Turkey".