Turkey impatient to join the EU and trying out schemes to pit Christians against Christians ..

Hell bent on joining the gloom and doom of the EU... misery loves company:

Dorian Jones writing at VOANews:
...ISTANBUL — Ankara has issued a strong attack on the European Union (EU) for what it calls a "bigoted" assessment of Turkey in its report on EU membership requirements published in October. In response, Turkey drew up its own report released this week to counter Brussels'. Despite the current acrimony, Ankara is expressing hopes its membership bid will get back on track with Ireland taking over the EU presidency.
In an unprecedented step, Ankara, earlier this week,  published its own assessment of its progress to join the ranks of the European Union in reponse to Brussels' critical assessment which raised concerns over deteriorating human rights in the country.
In the 270-page report, Turkey's Minister for EU membership, Ergemen Bagis, claimed such criticism is "bigoted" and "politically motivated."
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said his country's patience is running out.
"The ongoing stalemate in accession negotiations is not acceptable," he said. "Eighteen negotiation chapters are blocked. Eight chapters were blocked by the council in 2006, and France blocked six and likewise the Greek Cypriots blocked six. So the ongoing stalemate in accession negotiations is damaging the process itself."...

Additionally, darkly scheming to pit Turkey's Syriac Christians against Roman Catholics:

From WorldWatchMonitor:
Syriacs call it a ploy to pit Christian communities against each other   Istanbul, December 18 (World Watch Monitor) — Three years after a Syrian Orthodox foundation applied to build a church in Istanbul, the Greater Istanbul Municipality has granted them a large plot of land and a building permit.  Banner headlines in the Turkish media praised the early-December decision as “a first in the history of the Republic,” declaring that never before had Turkey allowed a non-Muslim minority to build an official new house of worship.
 
Still, Syriac Christians were far from pleased.
 For one thing, the land they were “granted” by the municipality is, in fact, a Latin Catholic cemetery.
 
“We don’t want a Syriac church on top of a cemetery!” the website suryaniler.com stated.
“This is a big scandal.”
In fact, the graveyard had been donated back in 1868 to the Italian Catholic Church in what is now Istanbul’s Yesilkoy district. It was then officially registered as Catholic property in 1936, although later confiscated in 1951 by the city.....