"Why does Europe need Turkey?
Turkey is the Mother of Europe
by Klaus J. Stöhlker
Kemal Atatürk set an example for his compatriots by donning a hat rather than the fez, thereby symbolically representing the Europeanization of his country. The governments of the European Union (EU) have today been obliged to make an equivalent gesture: They have had to remove the cross in order to open the door of Old Europe to a new, wider world. Nowadays, there is no longer a “Sick Man of Europe”, but instead there is a whole parade of sick men and women between the River Elbe and the Atlantic."
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