Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron may be busy proclaiming the end of multiculturalism (without, of course, doing anything to bring about that happy event), but Turkey’s thuggish prime minister Recep Erdogan does not appear to be on message. The Guardian has some details:

The children of Turkish immigrants in Germany should learn Turkish before German, said Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a rabble-rousing speech in Düsseldorf on Sunday night. Ten thousand members of Germany’s large Turkish community gathered to hear Erdogan tell of his “growing unease” about the way immigrants are treated in Germany. “You must integrate, but I am against assimilation …“

To their credit, both Sarkozy and Merkel have made no secret of their opposition to the dangerous and irresponsible proposition that Turkey should be a member of the EU. Cameron, by contrast, remains convinced that Turkish membership would be an absolutely splendid idea. Quite how he proposes to reconcile this stance with his painfully late discovery of the evils of multiculturalism will be interesting to watch.