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Turkey not ready to join EU

Monday, 1st August 2011

After the Westminster Home Affairs Committee displayed concerns about plans to allow Turkey to join the EU, UKIP leader Nigel Farage put the Party's response more bluntly, saying: "Turkey should not be allowed to join the EU."

"While the committee's report raises concerns about border controls and organised crime, it ultimately says that there are more pros to Turkey joining the EU than cons," said Mr Farage.

"This is not the case.

"If Turkey joins the EU than that's an estimated 75 million people who will be eligible to roam around the EU and also come to the UK.

"Our country is already buckling under the strain of its existing population."

He added: "It is also known that Turkey plays a prominent role in cocaine and heroin trafficking to the West. Bringing them into the EU will not help the UK's drug problem.

"David Cameron is fully behind Turkey's proposed EU membership.

He really needs to have a rethink if he is serious about putting the UK first."

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