"Time for Turkey to back away from the EU
Oktay Yenal
Friday, March 9, 2007
Turkey should withdraw from its negotiations to join the European Union. The EU seeks to create a large bloc of nations united by the principles of peaceful coexistence and human rights. How appropriate it would be for the EU to reach out to the Turkish Republic, whose modernization under the reforms of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, offers a path to 1.2 billion Muslims for the development of secular, democratic societies. However, nationalist concerns on the continent have trumped the objectives under which the EU was established."
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