I Wish I'd Thought Of The Comparison!

From SignAndSight (German News In English), translated from:

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 06.10.2005

In an article on the transit zone of the Mediterranean, through which so many illegal immigrants force their way into our poor beleaguered Europe, Dirk Schümer makes a few conservative observations on a possible Turkish EU entry. "Venetian, Neopolitan and Papal ships fought the Turks for centuries in the Adriatic around the coast of Sicily. If this constituted an outstanding contribution to the formation of Europe, then it was plainly as an opposition to all things anti-European. To declare the Turks as potential Europeans overnight makes as much historical sense as branding cigarettes as cough sweets."