"Europe and the 'other'
By Pantelis Boukalas
Turkish soccer teams have, for some years now, taken part in European championships. Although politics is not entirely absent from these decisions, the prevailing laws are the all-powerful ones of the market: European sporting federations, under the aegis of the sponsoring industry, are encouraged by the profits to be gained in new markets. The European Union, however, is not simply a common market but something more political and intellectual � at least that is what its leaders claim � with the desire to co-create a political force that will multiply (and not simply add to) the power of the individual countries in a union that is politically autonomous from the American superpower. So it is self-evident that Turkey�s membership cannot be decided solely on the basis of market criteria."
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