"We Turks want to be a part of Europe, but with our honour and values intact'
People say they cannot continue to sacrifice their culture and feel insulted by hostile European attitudes
Helena Smith in Beypazari
Saturday December 18, 2004
The Guardian
Since Ottoman times, the people of Beypazari have rarely had to stop their slow-motion lives to think of the world beyond the Anatolian slopes that surround them.
But this quiet town, a showcase of social and economic progress which is anchored at the country's east-west crossroads, has been obsessed by the thought of Turkey achieving membership of the EU, and the arguments raging here yesterday were doubtless being echoed across the land. "
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