"Don't count out Turkey
It's too important to Europe, and vice versa, for talks over its entrance into the EU to founder.
November 10, 2006
BULENT ECEVIT, ONE OF the most important leaders in modern Turkish history, died Sunday in Ankara. His dream may be dying a slow death in Brussels.
'There can be no Europe without Turkey, and no Turkey without Europe,' Ecevit said in 1999. A four-term prime minister, Ecevit was by the end of his career a supporter of open markets and greater integration with the West."
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