"Nationalists and Islamic conservatives stoke the anti-Europe passions
By Amberin Zaman in Camlihemsin
(Filed: 02/09/2005)
No country other than Turkey has had to wait 42 years at Europe's door. With each new condition the European Union places on Turkey's joining the EU, anger has risen and now the country is engulfed by anti-EU feelings.
'If I were Erdogan [the Turkish prime minister] I would tell them to go to hell,' said Ender Buberoglu, a farmer in the town of Camlihemsin in the Black Sea province of Rize, where nationalist passions run especially high. 'I would say, if you don't want us, we want you even less.'"
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