Thursday, June 09, 2016

The Brexiters’ ugly campaign to vilify Turks — FT.com

The Brexiters’ ugly campaign to vilify Turks

by: Philip Stephens

Flick through the campaign material of the Brexiters fighting Britain’s EU referendum and you will find a video of a brawl in the Ankara parliament. Next, a poster with an image of a UK passport declaring that “Turkey (population 76m) is joining the EU”. Then statistics about Turkey’s high birth rate; and a warning that Britain’s National Health Service will soon be swamped by expectant Turkish mothers.

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