The EU has shown its "good intentions" many times. It is Turkiye's turn to   
   show its own "good intentions". The only "good intentions" Turkiye has to show   
   its unconditional respect to its people's human rights and freedoms. So far   
   since the declaration of    
   its independence Turkiye has failed to do so; four military interventions,   
   gross violations of human rights and freedoms of  its people, lack of modern,   
   contemporary education system not Islamic/Islamist indoctrination with   
   Iman-Hatip schools instead of    
   modern contemporary schools which create marketable skills Turkiye needs most   
   desparately, creating and maintaining a Religious Affairs Directorate where   
   democracy requires strict separation of religion and state, failure to   
   eliminate Islamist tendencies    
   like Said Nursi and Nakshibendi Islamist organizations, and others by modern   
   and contemporary education, regionalism (while some parts of the country where   
   Kurdish people live are deliberately neglected with lack of infrastructure,   
   modern  schools which    
   produce marketable skills, job related investments, etc.), failure to stop and   
   eliminate corruption at the very high echelons of the ruling AKP party. The   
   list goes on and on. While still half of the population is at or under poverty   
   lines, AKP president    
   builds illegal, 1100 room super luxurious palace against court rules. Hundreds   
   of thousands of people are sacked by the president's own personal orders and   
   put in jail for the coup he himself orchestrated. Yes, of course it is   
   Turkiye's turn to show its    
   own "good intentions".   
      
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