Nicolas Sarkozy made a visit on February 25 unofficially in Ankara, which lasted in all and all for 300 minutes. The aim was, as chairman of the G20, to exchange views on global economic conditions. It should be recalled that in 2009, Sarkozy had worked hard to exclude six countries, including Turkey, the Summits of Heads of State and Government of the G20, but these attempts were unsuccessful summit in Pittsburgh.
In short, his visit is nothing more than an excuse to meet some Turkish-French relations to the level where they had fallen - the fault of France. Bilateral relations between the two countries do not go better, despite the exceptional efforts has yet deployed France's ambassador to Ankara Bernard Emie, who was recently appointed ambassador to London.
Before being elected president, Sarkozy has adopted a hostile attitude vis-à-vis Turkey. Became president, he has not changed course and announced it would formally veto the opening of five chapters of discussion in the context of accession to the European Union. The reason was that the opening chapters of these involved the impending integration of Turkey.
Then, at each election, he used the map of Turkey, Turkish, and blithely mixing rejection of Islam. Recently, he again declared that "in a secular country, it [should] not be calls to prayer" [Feb. 16, when he received at the Elysee Palace of UMP deputies]. Those who asked him what was then the church bells have received no response.
Sarkozy has always carefully avoided making an official visit to Turkey. Although the family of his mother from Salonika [longer included in the Ottoman Empire and birthplace of such Atatürk], it has always excluded to make the agenda of such a visit. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan had said in April 2010 with Le Figaro on the eve of a visit to France, he would invite Sarkozy to come to see Turkey as it is today, and that would allow the French President that in some areas in the country was ahead of the member countries of the European Union.
Turkish Prime Minister was right except that the French statesmen today seem unwilling to abandon their prejudices damaged. The last official visit by a French president in Turkey, that of Francois Mitterrand in a lame back almost twenty years. Before that, only de Gaulle in 1968, and Empress Eugenie [wife of Napoleon III] in 1869, had made an official visit to Turkey! France is probably the country in the world who look down on others as condescending.
While the election propaganda in France flirting with Islamophobia, we find that the policy of Paris vis-à-vis Maghreb countries, structured by the fear of Islam, turns the bitter failure. In this region and the Middle East, new actors to be taken into account are more authoritarian regimes confidants to the West.
This new situation has begun with Turkey and later spread to the region. But Europeans do not understand this change. Instead, they continued to watch Turkey through a prism East and have not realized that they could develop a partnership with them on an equal basis. If they had, they would not have behaved this way for the proposed Turkish membership of the European Union.
Questions they arise on whether "Turkey may constitute model for Arabs" ne not constitute policy but mainly reflects concern therefore that underlying dominates perception tenacious different contexts systematically consider the other criteria as Arabophobia, Islamophobia, the iranophobie or turcophobie.
The rejection of Islam in the discourse of the French right has certainly still beautiful days ahead. This ignorance and obsession with Islam are a sign of moral decline. The new concept of "national identity", currently put forward by France when it is nothing concrete, is also a striking example ... 
In short, his visit is nothing more than an excuse to meet some Turkish-French relations to the level where they had fallen - the fault of France. Bilateral relations between the two countries do not go better, despite the exceptional efforts has yet deployed France's ambassador to Ankara Bernard Emie, who was recently appointed ambassador to London.
Before being elected president, Sarkozy has adopted a hostile attitude vis-à-vis Turkey. Became president, he has not changed course and announced it would formally veto the opening of five chapters of discussion in the context of accession to the European Union. The reason was that the opening chapters of these involved the impending integration of Turkey.
Then, at each election, he used the map of Turkey, Turkish, and blithely mixing rejection of Islam. Recently, he again declared that "in a secular country, it [should] not be calls to prayer" [Feb. 16, when he received at the Elysee Palace of UMP deputies]. Those who asked him what was then the church bells have received no response.
Sarkozy has always carefully avoided making an official visit to Turkey. Although the family of his mother from Salonika [longer included in the Ottoman Empire and birthplace of such Atatürk], it has always excluded to make the agenda of such a visit. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan had said in April 2010 with Le Figaro on the eve of a visit to France, he would invite Sarkozy to come to see Turkey as it is today, and that would allow the French President that in some areas in the country was ahead of the member countries of the European Union.
Turkish Prime Minister was right except that the French statesmen today seem unwilling to abandon their prejudices damaged. The last official visit by a French president in Turkey, that of Francois Mitterrand in a lame back almost twenty years. Before that, only de Gaulle in 1968, and Empress Eugenie [wife of Napoleon III] in 1869, had made an official visit to Turkey! France is probably the country in the world who look down on others as condescending.
While the election propaganda in France flirting with Islamophobia, we find that the policy of Paris vis-à-vis Maghreb countries, structured by the fear of Islam, turns the bitter failure. In this region and the Middle East, new actors to be taken into account are more authoritarian regimes confidants to the West.
This new situation has begun with Turkey and later spread to the region. But Europeans do not understand this change. Instead, they continued to watch Turkey through a prism East and have not realized that they could develop a partnership with them on an equal basis. If they had, they would not have behaved this way for the proposed Turkish membership of the European Union.
Questions they arise on whether "Turkey may constitute model for Arabs" ne not constitute policy but mainly reflects concern therefore that underlying dominates perception tenacious different contexts systematically consider the other criteria as Arabophobia, Islamophobia, the iranophobie or turcophobie.
The rejection of Islam in the discourse of the French right has certainly still beautiful days ahead. This ignorance and obsession with Islam are a sign of moral decline. The new concept of "national identity", currently put forward by France when it is nothing concrete, is also a striking example ...
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