"Turkey's day of destiny
BY JONATHAN POWER
17 December 2004
SOME frontiers are only in the imagination', wrote Jan Morris in her remarkable book, Fifty Years of Europe. Prince Metternich used to say the frontier of Asia was at the Landstrasse, the street that ran towards Hungary, away from Vienna�s city walls.
It was also said that Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of Germany after World War II, held similar feelings about Prussia. He was a Rhinelander, and whenever his train crossed the Elbe, on its way eastward to Berlin, he too would groan, 'Hier beginnt Asia', and pull the blinds down. "
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