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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Novelist scores with victory-over-EU plot - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"Novelist scores with victory-over-EU plot

By Andrew Borowiec
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- A Turkish author who has thrilled his readers with an imaginary invasion of Turkey by the United States, has scored again with a story of Turkey's victory over Europe.
Selling more than 150,000 copies in record time, the book, 'Third World War,' struck a responsive cord across a country increasingly wary of the European Union's delaying tactics in handling Turkey's candidacy.
The author, Burak Turna, 30, has become the hero of all this, particularly among the young, who are annoyed by forecasts of long and difficult EU talks without accession guarantees. "

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