"The Case of Turkey in the EU
10 February 2006 | 19:37 | FOCUS News Agency
BY OGNYAN MINCHEV
In 10 to 12 years Turkey will be a member of the EU. With the assistance of a whole palette of crafty and logical arguments the opponents of Turkish membership – overt and covert – console themselves that this would not happen. Here is a part of their reasoning: the European public opinion does not accept 80-million Islamic Turkey as a part of Europe. Turks, who already live in Europe isolate themselves in close communities, because they are culturally incompatible with the majority Europeans. In European terms Turkey is a relatively poor country, and Europe is already charged enough with supporting the development of the new member states from the former communist bloc. The Turkish state is authoritarian and oppressive, with respect for human rights to the lowest sanitary minimum. Turkey does not fulfill the political standards of European democracy. The country is ruled over by a doctrine and culture of uncompromising nationalism, hardly compatible with the post-national stage of development of Europe"
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