"Turks, Nervous About European Prospects, Turn to U.S.
Lynsey Addario for The New York
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: June 11, 2005
IZMIT, Turkey, June 10 - Zeynel Erdem, a leading Turkish businessman, came to Izmit, a seaside industrial town, to give 400 of his prominent peers a message.
'Don't count on the European Union,' he told the crowd after a chicken dinner in a hotel ballroom here. 'Look to the U.S.; they're our real friends.'"
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