"Just one year apart, two very different pictures
Zeynep Gurcanli - The New Anatolian / Ankara
There is a saying in Turkey; 'If Istanbul sneezes, Ankara catches a cold...'
This idiom reflected the Turkey-European Union Troika meeting which took place in the first quarter of March last year in Ankara; the clash between International Women's Day demonstrators and police in Istanbul, only one day before the gathering of the EU ministers with their Turkish counterparts, completely changed the agenda of the Troika meeting in Ankara. "
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